How do I generate PDF files programmatically?

[riccardostokker]

Hello!

First of all, I absolutely love the project. I'm using rnote daily to take my university notes, and it's a great example of GTK programming in Rust.

I'm currently writing a simple Rust program to sync files across my devices, and one of the tasks of this program would be converting *.rnote files to PDF files. I've been looking through the source code for a way to do this but I'm afraid that it's beyond my interpretation capabilities (I've just started learning Rust). What should I do to convert my rnote files to PDF programmatically?

Thank you,
Riccardo

[flxzt]

Hi, and thanks!

I would suggest looking at engine.rs and import.rs which contains methods import_from_rnote_bytes_p1() and open_from_store_snapshot_p2() for importing from a file.

To export, there is export_doc_as_pdf_bytes().

Some of these methods give back a asynchronous channel receiver, so you would need to wrap them in block_on for usage in a non-asynchronous program.

I hope this helps.

[riccardostokker]

Thank you very much!