Re: RISC OS Save-as PDF file

On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 23:02:19 +0000, Vincent Sanders wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 08:04:02PM +0000, John Williams wrote:
> >
> > I noticed recently (from another posting) that (some) other platforms seem
> > to still have Save as PDF which was implemented under RISC OS and later
> > removed.
>
> The export as PDF was implemented as a core feature using a library
> called libharu. unfortunately the library has not had a new release
> since version 2.2 (several years ago) and NetSurf requires fixes that
> have never been released.
>
> This issue combined with the original author abandoning the work and
> the feature becoming broken has resulted in PDF export being
> configured off for some time now.

Further to that, I believe it also relies on the core printing API,
which has also been disabled for a long time pending (IIRC) some work
on duplicating contents.

Chris