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Re: [Xml-sg-cmt] WeasyPrint Update

Kesara Rathnayake <kesara@staff.ietf.org> Wed, 29 June 2022 21:48 UTC

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Hi all,

Comparing recent RFCs is a better evaluation because there have been 
changes happening over the years to CSS.

I will look at whether there is some tweaking that can be done so that 
xml2rfc can generate a PDF that is similar to a recent RFC.

Cheers,
Kesara

On 30/06/22 2:16 am, John R Levine wrote:
>> I'm not sure we can do a real comparison without running these through 
>> the pdfaPilot step, which essentially rewrites the pdf.
> 
> It's not likely to change the appearance unless the PDF is depending on 
> fonts other than the standard ones or ones included in the PDF which 
> would be a bug.  PDF/A mostly fills in defaults and divides some 
> internal data structures into smaller chunks.
> 
> But I agree the differences we're seeing due to the new rendering 
> library seem significant.
> 
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
> Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
> 

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Kesara Rathnayake
Senior Software Development Engineer - IETF LLC
kesara@staff.ietf.org

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