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   From: marion@facts.com   
      
   On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 21:38:56 +0000, Peter Flynn wrote :   
      
      
   > Thank you, this is a hugely useful list.'   
      
   Thanks. It needs updating but it covers most of what I've needed to do.   
   The hard part is keeping it to a single line per need, which necessitates   
   excessive shortening of the descriptions.   
      
   I think you're talking about this line item below:   
   [x] Create PDF new text (Irfanview or Paint.NET plugins + Ghostscript)   
   Where that's really about ADDING text to an existing PDF document.   
      
   Given the confusion inherent in the lousy way I wrote it, I'll change it to   
   [x] Add text to existing pdf (Irfanview or Paint.NET plugins + Ghostscript)   
      
   Moving forward on your point below with LaTeX, I agree with you that we   
   need a line item for creating PDFs from scratch using a markup language.   
      
   > The one tool missing seems to be LaTeX, for creating PDFs, but perhaps   
   > "create" in this context means "convert from some other typeset format"   
   > rather than "typeset directly to PDF" (in industry terms, "originate")   
      
   Given LaTeX is the de facto standard for creating mathematical and   
   scientific documents, I agree with you that it belongs as a line item.   
   [x] Generate complex PDF using markup language (LaTeX via pdfTeX or LuaTeX)   
      
   When I researched what else that is no cost which generates PDFs, most were   
   programming libraries, such as ReportLab, PDFKit, jsPDF & PDFSharp.   
      
   Contrasting with those programming libraries (which require programming   
   code), LaTeX is a markup language and typesetting system. We write the   
   document's content and structure using LaTeX commands, and LaTeX handles   
   the visual formatting to PDF.   
      
   So I won't include the programming libraries in that new line, for now.   
   Does that clarify the two lines better for 'creating' & 'generating' PDF?   
      
   [x] Add text to existing pdf (Irfanview or Paint.NET plugins + Ghostscript)   
   [x] Generate complex PDF using markup language (LaTeX via pdfTeX or LuaTeX)   
      
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