Starting from release 9 AdobeReader, the reference PDF viewer from Adobe, has a Flash player embedded. The recent addition to CTAN of flashmovie package by Timo Hartmann prompted me to investigate the feasibility of an integration between ConTeXt-mkiv and swf figures. All tests were performed under Linux Ubuntu 8.04 with AdobeReader 9.3.3 installed, but I suppose they also work under Windows or Mac operating systems.
MicroTalk is a short and technical paper that shows some unusual, hopefully useful, ideas following the schema “figure to code”. The main topic is always typographic programming in ConTeXt Lua. A bit of Lua code, the macro and Leptonica extensions are the ingredients for this recipe to cook a pdfsplit macro that take a pdf and try to split into parts as the does with .
We present two applications of SWIGLIB: a binding to the GraphicsMagick library that under certain conditions can speed up conversion of bitmaps by up to 20% and a binding to the Ghostscript library that simplifies the integration of PostScript programs in ConTeXt with the LuaTeX engine. Examples of TIFF conversion and barcodes in PostScript are shown.
The SWIGLIB project aims to show a way to build and distribute shared libraries for LuaTeX by means of SWIG. This paper depicts the infrastructure that has been created and the rationale behind it. Simple examples are shown.
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