PDF rendering sometimes terrible

Question

Hi
Have some troubles with rendering PDF Documents... many look
fine - some are really messed up.
Spent some hours finding out why, and found some approches
1. Embedded Font have to be embedded Subgroup, not just
Emebedded??
2. creation source is an max, not an PC.
Or - big question do the developers, and the community - i
missed some other reason.
gretts

Answer 1

I was not aware that webkit was accessible from actionscript, but now I see it is -- that's pretty nice.
But what I am saying, is that you can already render html and write pdf inside actionscript without using alchemy.  If you are not familiar with c/c++, this is going to be a much easier route.
If you are familiar with c/c++, adapting existing libraries is, while time-consuming, not that difficult -- that is the point of alchemy.  The library and all its dependencies must be reconfigured and remade inside the alchemy environment, and hooks (gluegen) must be written to interface with all the necessary functions of the library.
There are quirks one runs into when adapting large amounts of code with alchemy, having to do with bugs in the version of llvm used by alchemy or things the developers did not expect you to do.  For example, alchemy pretends to be bsd on i386, so code you compile that checks for i386 to embed architecture-specific assembler will fail unless modified.  I am sure I have not personally run into all the quirks, and hence cannot give an exhuastive list, and I doubt anyone can.  If you are not very experienced with c/c++, these quirks may end up being show-stoppers for you.
If you are lucky, though -- most small libraries compile in alchemy without a hitch.  You still need enough c/c++ understanding to work with gluegen to interface with them.