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mikeday | 4 months ago

We've spent twenty years working on HTML to PDF conversion and I expect we could easily spend another twenty years, so feel free to give Prince a try if you would rather avoid the headache :)

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PaulKeeble|3 months ago

Normally when we are nearly there we say its 95% done and only 95% of the work remains. If your feeling is you are half done I suspect more than 50% of the work remains!

What I know having done a lot in this space is we aren't close!

mikeday|3 months ago

yeah, we often refer to the first 90% of the work and the second 90% of the work lol.

twotwotwo|3 months ago

Awesome. From curiosity: is Prince's core still written in Mercury? (Looked at old comments.)

mikeday|3 months ago

Absolutely! The CSS support, layout engine, PDF output, and JavaScript interpreter are all written in Mercury, while the font support that was originally a mix of Mercury and C has now been rewritten as a standalone Rust project, Allsorts.