[reportlab-users] Wordles

Roberto Alsina ralsina at netmanagers.com.ar
Mon Jun 22 06:27:31 EDT 2009


On Monday 22 June 2009 07:27:44 Andy Robinson wrote:

> 2009/6/22 Dinu Gherman <gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de>:

> > Hi,

> > I had some fun y'day with wordle.net (see attached self-explaining

> > sample PDF, generated with RL).

>

> Neat app. BTW, one thing I've seen done with these before is to

> remove all the standard Python keywords, so that the remaining ones

> tend to show "what the library is about..."

>

> But he throws down a huge challenge in his FAQ...

> "This would have been completely impossible without the Java platform"

>

> Users, are you men or mice?


Well, it looks like just word frequencies and a packing algorithm, or am I
missing something? I expect I could slap something together in one
afternoon or two (without my current flu, that is).

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