Why GenServer to hold the document?

[alappe]

Dear Andrew,

thanks for starting this package – much appreciated. While converting an old pdf over to your library, I wondered why the document is hold inside a GenServer? I read through it and even converted a local version to return the %Document{} instead of a pid(), all working fine.

I do see a benefit for holding fonts and objects though.

Regards
Andreas

[Hermanverschooten]

@alappe I know this was some time ago, but would you be willing to share your version?

[alappe]

@Hermanverschooten sure, but it will take until next week due to holiday.

[alappe]

@Hermanverschooten Sorry, I forgot it's on github anyway:

https://github.com/zimmer7/elixir-pdf/tree/document_without_process

This is the branch I'm using in one project.

[Hermanverschooten]

@alappe Thanks! Small question though, why did you change the name to PDF?

[alappe]

I can't recall, probably because it worked and that's the usual writing of the format. This complicates merging – sorry for that!

Looking into it, I wasn't really that wrong: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.12/naming-conventions.html#casing

[Hermanverschooten]

Wasn't complaining, just wondering.

[alappe]

Alright :)