[cl-pdf-devel] Problem with write-document with stream asopposedto pathname

[Marc Battyani]

"David J Cooper Jr" <david.cooper at genworks.com> writes:

Hi Dave,

>  > If you want to generate a PDF in memory, to send in a web server
>  > for instance, you need to write it in a with-output-to-string and
>  > then write the string to you real stream.
>  >
>
> And depending on what kind of stream you are talking about, it might
> support something functionally equivalent to file-position which you
> can use, for example the streams used by allegroserve on ACL support
> excl::socket-bytes-written or something like that, which I have found
> will work (and Franz/JKF confirms it should be stable to use) in lieu
> of file-position. But the code I sent Marc for that did not make it
> into cl-pdf because apparently it doesn't really offer much advantages
> over writing to an intermediate string as Marc suggests above (or just
> using a temporary file for that matter), and it adds the complication
> of having to specialize for the type of stream (and God knows how many
> stream varieties there might be out there).

Hmm... the most likely reason is probably that I was over busy as usual and
forgot it ;-)

>If you think it makes sense to re-open this issue let Marc and me
>know.

Yes. We can re-open the debate.

Marc