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jashkenas on Jan 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: PDFKit - A PDF generation library for Node.js.

The source code is a nice read, and quite illuminating, if you've ever wanted to dig under the hood of a PDF:

https://github.com/devongovett/pdfkit/tree/master/lib

edit: In particular, some of this TTF font handling stuff is pretty fun:

https://github.com/devongovett/pdfkit/blob/master/lib/font.c...

You get bonus style points for embedding PostScript in a heredoc.

devongovett on Jan 2, 2012 | [–]

Thanks Jeremy! You just made my day. :)

dpritchett on Jan 2, 2012 | [–]

I was just coming to comment on my delight in seeing the examples written in CoffeeScript.

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