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Thomas Leitner @gettalong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Released #HexaPDF 1.11.0 with support for creating LTV digital signatures. hexapdf.gettalong.org/documentatio...

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Thomas Leitner @gettalong.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This year's Euruko in Brno draws near. See you there next week! I will have some HexaPDF stickers with me 😁

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Thomas Leitner @gettalong.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

PDF now supports Brotli compression through a new extension: pdfa.org/no-excuses-b... And #HexaPDF already has it implemented 😀

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No excuses: Brotli compression advances PDF – PDF Association

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Vienna.rb @ruby.wien · 05/08/2026

Save the date! Vienna.rb is back with incredible talks and great vibes! See you at Platogo on the 3rd of September! ✌️

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Thomas Leitner @gettalong.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

#HexaPDF 1.9.0 with support for HarfBuzz text shaping released! hexapdf.gettalong.org/news/2026/he...

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HexaPDF 1.9.0 - Text shaping et al. - HexaPDF

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Thomas Leitner @gettalong.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Coming to #HexaPDF with the next release: HarfBuzz based text shaping! First line in image without, second one with HarfBuzz based text shaping.

Screenshot of a PDF created by HexaPDF where the first line shows text with combining marks without correct shaping and the second line with correct shaping by HexaPDF's upcoming HarfBuzz support.

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Thomas Leitner @gettalong.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I just released #HexaPDF 1.7.0, with support for smart text extraction and the upcoming brotli compression filter, among other things. hexapdf.gettalong.org/documentatio... hexapdf.gettalong.org/documentatio...

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Vienna.rb @ruby.wien · 09/02/2026

Time for another Vienna Ruby Meetup! 🎉 It's been three months since the last meetup. To make up for it, we got three wonderful talks covering a wide range of topics this time. Thank you to Meister for hosting us!

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Thomas Leitner @gettalong.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Released #HexaPDF 1.4.1 with some fixes - see hexapdf.gettalong.org/documentatio...

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Thomas Leitner @gettalong.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

So, I now have implemented a basic template system for VersaDok. However, using ERB as preprocessor instead of the built-in template system is faster in most cases (even though the larger source doc needs to be parsed every time) because AST nodes need to be rendered many times more.

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Thomas Leitner @gettalong.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Once rubygems.org sends me the password reset e-mail that I already requested a few times, I can release a new version of #HexaPDF

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RubyGems.org | your community gem host

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Thomas Leitner @gettalong.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

So I have been working on something lately, lightweight markup related. Turns out it's at least 4 times faster than kramdown when parsing the same document (n.b. a bit of an apple to banana comparison as kramdown can do much more at the moment but still 🤯)

Without YJIT on Ruby 3.4.1

Warming up --------------------------------------
kramdown 259.422 i/s - 270.000 times in 1.040775s (3.85ms/i)
versadok 1.158k i/s - 1.265k times in 1.091970s (863.22μs/i)
Calculating -------------------------------------
kramdown 276.681 i/s - 778.000 times in 2.811901s (3.61ms/i)
versadok 1.138k i/s - 3.475k times in 3.052762s (878.49μs/i)

Comparison:
versadok: 1138.3 i/s
kramdown: 276.7 i/s - 4.11x slower

With YJIT on Ruby 3.4.1

Warming up --------------------------------------
kramdown 334.871 i/s - 336.000 times in 1.003372s (2.99ms/i)
versadok 1.853k i/s - 1.969k times in 1.062396s (539.56μs/i)
Calculating -------------------------------------
kramdown 315.374 i/s - 1.004k times in 3.183520s (3.17ms/i)
versadok 1.822k i/s - 5.560k times in 3.052272s (548.97μs/i)

Comparison:
versadok: 1821.6 i/s
kramdown: 315.4 i/s - 5.78x slower

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Thomas Leitner @gettalong.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

So, Ruby friends, how do I remove count number of trailing elements from an array *without* creating a new result array? There is Array#pop(count) but that creates an array I don't need or want ;-)

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Thomas Leitner @gettalong.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

@itext.bsky.social Congrats on the release of 9.1! 🎉 The table rendering speed-up is great! Is the source code for the benchmark available somewhere?

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Thomas Leitner @gettalong.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Coming with the next release to #HexaPDF: Line annotation appearance generation. Other annotation types will follow.

Image of 10 line annotations with different styles

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Thomas Leitner @gettalong.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

It seems that Ruby getting faster with each release is now the norm. As no one is pointing it out anymore 😀

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Thomas Leitner @gettalong.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

New release of hexapdf-extras to make it compatible with HexaPDF 1.0. The API docs now also have a visual example of a Swiss QR bill - hexapdf-extras.gettalong.org/api/HexaPDF/...

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HexaPDF Extras: HexaPDF::Extras::Layout::SwissQRBill

Additional functionality for the HexaPDF library

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Eric Wastl @was.tl · 30/11/2024

🎄 T-24 hours until #AdventOfCode 2024! 🎄

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