# PDF::Writer

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-writer/66494>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 26, 2006, 11:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-writer/66494 "2006-08-26T11:42:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Kyrre\_SSiso-8859-1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@Kyrre\_SSiso-8859-1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kyrre_SSiso-8859-1)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 11:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-writer/66494/1 "2006-08-26T11:42:34Z")

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Hello!

Will this thing eventually replace LaTeX?

Are there any examples of well designed documents / posters / books  
made using PDF::Writer?

Thanks,  
Kyrre

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**Author:** ![Kyrre\_SSiso-8859-1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@Kyrre\_SSiso-8859-1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kyrre_SSiso-8859-1)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 11:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-writer/66494/2 "2006-08-26T11:58:53Z")

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On 8/25/06, Kyrre Nygård [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Will this thing eventually replace LaTeX?

No. I hope to make it far more usable than it is (and it’s pretty  
darned usable now) but I am not planning on replacing TeX or LaTeX.

-austin

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**Author:** ![Kyrre\_SSiso-8859-1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@Kyrre\_SSiso-8859-1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kyrre_SSiso-8859-1)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-writer/66494/3 "2006-09-04T14:46:14Z")

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On 25/08/06, Kyrre Nygård [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

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I do believe the 95 page PDF::Writer manual available on it’s homepage  
is generated using PDF::Writer.

Farrel

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**Author:** ![Kyrre\_SSiso-8859-1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@Kyrre\_SSiso-8859-1](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Kyrre_SSiso-8859-1)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-writer/66494/4 "2006-09-04T14:46:17Z")

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Kyrre Nygård wrote:

> Will this thing eventually replace LaTeX?

That would be cool, wouldn’t it? Not that I know LaTeX…

> Are there any examples of well designed documents / posters / books made  
> using PDF::Writer?

I don’t know how much it’s been used. I suppose Austin  
knows. Austin??

Last I heard, there were some bugs and limitations in it,  
but it was still quite usable.

Hal