RMoD / Artefact

Artefact is a framework to generate PDF documents. It is fully written in Smalltalk and doesn't require any native library. Artefact is light, platform independant and offer to users a high level of abstraction in order to easily creating PDF documents.

• completely written in Smalltalk (and only Smalltalk),
• complete freedom about the order of creation for pages, elements... (no need to follow the document order)
• multi format and orientation for pages
• page composition based on reusables PDF elements,
• extensibility by offering a composition standard to create your own high level elements
• styleSheet that can be reused in many documents and avoid wasting time and place with duplication
• image support with JPEG and PNG formats
• pre-defined high level elements like datagrid
• support PDF compression to produce compact files

To easily get Artefact:

Gofer new
    smalltalkhubUser: '' project: 'RMoD/Artefact';
    package: 'ConfigurationOfArtefact';
    load.

and then:

ConfigurationOfArtefact load

To start using Artefact, you should look at the Artefact tutorial in the Help Browser of Pharo (accessible from the World menu)

Artefact is written and supported by Olivier Auverlot and Guillaume Larcheveque (aka The Pasta Team)