Just wanted to share a new release for the roc-pdf package -- https://github.com/lukewilliamboswell/roc-pdf/releases/tag/0.1.0-rc2
It's still primitive but making steady progress... the package is getting very large so it can take a quite while to build or test things with a cold cache.
Screencast from 2026-08-19 20-54-38.webm
Example product_illustration.roc
Looking great! Such a cool package :) Looking forward to trying this out to create flyers, invoices, and magazine-like stuff which goes to print :)
Yeah me too! It may be a little rough with the current capability, but those use cases will be well supported once we get a little further along.
Here's the roadmap ... I'm looking forward to Gate 8 which unlocks more advanced and flexible APIs. We just closed Gate 4 with this RC.
semantic/content/fragment contract (Gate 0)
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PDF object kernel (Gate 1)
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minimal tagged visual kernel (Gate 2)
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Unicode text and useful layout (Gate 3)
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production resources and graphics (Gate 4)
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static PDF/A-4 core UA vocabulary
(Gate 5) (Gate 6)
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PDF/A-4 + PDF/UA-2 closure (Gate 7)
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broad production documents (Gate 8)
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extended modern vocabulary (Gate 9)
Last updated: Sep 03 2026 at 15:16 UTC