ruby and PDF

the speaker: Lukas Rieder
working for "paper c"

some approaches

writing PDF
... act as flying saucer ...

UNIX tools

xpdf :
$ pdftotext -layout -enc UTF-8 ...

pdftk
$ pdftk compressed.pdf uncompress output uncompressed.pdf

imagemagick
$ convert ... # e.g. towards JPEG

the speaker wrapped some unix tools and called that "PdfUtils", and released it as GEM.

Ruby User Group Berlin / 2010-07-01 "meetup" / a brief report

At today's meeting of RUG-B

• Jan Berkel talked to us about Ruby on Google App Engine
  (link added at 2010-07-02-14-42),

• and  Benjamin Krause talked to us about Unobtrusive Google Analytics Event Tracking.

Of course both presentations were given with quite some compentence and professionality, but the Google App thing excited me personally far more.
Here are
I am rather keen to see Jan's slides and his code getting announced on the Google Group.
Well, ruby apps run in a Google App environment through jruby, which in turn runs on a JVM. Jan told us of two different working approaches. Rails does run in theory in that environment, but it takes way too long to start. Instead Sintra seems to be the ruby framework of choice wrt the Google App Engine.

I might err there …, sorry, rephrase:
maybe that question is heretic, but simply put: what's the status of perl on the Google App Engine?
Looks like nothing moved after 2009-07-01 with perl-appengine, right?
I personally would love to see a perl app say "hello world!" on the Google App Engine.

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