easyrender
Version 0.1.1.4 revision 0 uploaded by PeterSelinger.
Package meta
- Synopsis
- User-friendly creation of EPS, PostScript, and PDF files
- Description
This module provides efficient functions for rendering vector graphics to a number of formats, including EPS, PostScript, and PDF. It provides an abstraction for multi-page documents, as well as a set of graphics primitives for page descriptions.
The graphics model is similar to that of the PostScript and PDF languages, but we only implement a subset of their functionality. Care has been taken that graphics rendering is done efficiently and as lazily as possible; documents are rendered "on the fly", without the need to store the whole document in memory.
The provided document description model consists of two separate layers of abstraction:
drawing is concerned with placing marks on a fixed surface, and takes place in the Draw monad;
document structure is concerned with a sequence of pages, their bounding boxes, and other meta-data. It takes place in the Document monad.
In principle, the functionality provided by EasyRender is similar to a subset of Cairo; however, EasyRender is lightweight and at least an order of magnitude faster.
- Author
- Peter Selinger
- Bug reports
- n/a
- Category
- Graphics
- Copyright
- Copyright (c) 2012-2018 Peter Selinger
- Homepage
- http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/easyrender/
- Maintainer
- selinger@mathstat.dal.ca
- Package URL
- n/a
- Stability
- n/a