[reportlab-users] Wordaxe status. Was: Incorrect character composition

[Robin Becker]

On 16/04/2015 13:40, Henning von Bargen wrote:
> Robin Becker wrote:
>> I corresponded about the problem he observed with ImageAndFlowables,
>> it turned out that his paragraph wrapping was looping forever for the case
>> of negative available widths which could happen in some ImageAndFlowable
>> instances. I did put in a fix to the bitbucket repository,
>> but haven't heard if that works for Henning.
>

> Correct.
> After the fix, I ran into a different error
> and since I didn't need ImageAndFlowables for my commercial use case,
> I left it as is.
>
if you have a failing case I will gladly examine it.


> To put things short, the status quo of Wordaxe is:
>
> With the exception of ImageAndFlowables, everything *should* work.
>
> The project is more or less abandoned:
> I won't put any further effort into it unless I need it for
> my commercial use case.
> For with major releases of RL, I'll probably check what's still working
> and what's not.
>
> I wrote 99.9% of the code.
> The only committers for Wordaxe are proff_fs (Florian Schulze) and myself.
> We're both using it only in combination with ReportLab.
>
> So, from my point of view, feel free to use Wordaxe's code in any way
> you like, e.g. partially integrate it into the ReportLab open-source code.
> In particular you may integrate Wordaxe's kerning support.
>
> Henning
.........
very generous. I'll leave Andy to decide if it make sense to add this as an 
optional to the reportlab code base.
-- 
Robin Becker