Mudbrick

API Documentation

Early-stages PDF generator, beelining for:

• PDF 2.0 support.
• In-process, pure functional approach.
• OpenType support.
• Special characters and ligatures, like ₛᵤ₆ₛ꜀ᵣᵢₚₜₛ for chemical compounds etc.

Currently working:

• OpenType fonts with ligatures, special characters and automatic kerning.
• Text positioning.
• Right and centre alignment.
• Coloured text.
• JPEG images.
• Compression.
• Underline with colour and thickness options.
• Basic line drawing.

To do:

• Other image formats.
• Font subsetting.
• Vector graphics.
• Strikethrough.
• Text highlight.

Installation

def deps do
  [
    {:mudbrick, "~> 0.0"}
  ]
end

What's the deal with the name?

It's a play on Adobe, which means mudbrick in Spanish.

See also

• elixir-pdf, a more mature library, supporting AFM instead of OTF fonts, but only the base WinAnsiEncoding and no special characters. Uses a GenServer for state.
• erlguten, an antiquated Erlang PDF generator.
• opentype-elixir, used for OTF parsing.
• ex_image_info, used for image metadata parsing.