MuPdf / Fitz

[Tor Andersson]

> Doing something really good and complete is a BIG task; It would be 
> great if we could figure out how to work together to produce one good, 
> coherent foundation-level vector graphics library instead of a bunch of 
> partial solutions.

I concur.

> If you're interested in reading a bit about my approach to functional 
> GUIs, here is a draft of a paper that was rejected from UIST just recently:
> 	http://www.haskell.org/fruit/functionally-modeled-guis.pdf
> (The paper has a lot of flaws, and only explores a really trivial 
> example in any depth, but it should give some of the basic flavor of my 
> work.)  There are also some slides on my functional API for vector 
> graphics available from the Haven web page, if you're interested in the 
> lower-level stuff.

I have not had time to read all of it yet, but there are some good ideas
there that I will have to look further into. Are you perchance involved
with the infinite canvas/pad++/i-cant-quite-remember-what-it-was-called
project? I read about that a few months back, and couldn't help but see
the similarities of that system with Xanadu. Very exciting stuff.

> But I still think we might want to at least provide some simple way for 
> an app to ask for a non-specific fonts, perhaps by just guaranteeing 
> that some font names (like, say "System", "Monospaced", "Serif" and 
> "Sans") will always be available.

See my reply to Raph's mail...