Austin Ziegler wrote:

> At long last, I have released PDF::Writer 1.0. The released version
> is 1.0.1 and is available from RubyForge:
> 
> Homepage::  http://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-pdf/

Thanks! This looks promising! But it's hard to evaluate immediate 
usefulness without seeing results and API.

Any chances to get a "Project Home Page" with (at least the same info 
that you wrote in this email and) the complex manual as a show case and 
browsable API reference (and/or documentation). Now I guess I'll be able 
to reach it only by installing and running or generating RDoc on my own.

> The release contains several demonstration programs and the
> canonical 82-page manual in PDF. On my home development machine (a
> 1Ghz Transmeta Crusoe with 512 Mb RAM), it takes about 5 minutes to
> generate the manual; it should be faster on most machines (about 1m
> 30s on my work machine).

At first this seemed to be quite slow, but then, if a document of some 
complexity takes roughly 1 sec / page it might not be that bad. Unless 
you've used to LaTeX but then you have used to many other problems as 
well :).

	- Aleksi