require "pdf"
p = PDF.new()
times = p:new_font{name="Times-Roman"}
page = p:new_page()
page:begin_text()
page:set_font(times, 12)
page:set_text_pos(100, 100)
for i = 1, 10000 do
page:set_text_pos(0, 0)
page:show("Bro, do you even contain multitudes?")
end
page:end_text()
page:add()
p:write("Legiony_McLegionface.txt")
ALICE: I loved it, I thought it was wonderfully insipid, top-notch NaNoGenMo material and well deserving of a green "completed" label. It's obviously a plain text file — its name ends in .txt and if you open it in a text editor you'll see it's perfectly well-formed plain text, no weird characters or anything. And it certainly contains more than 50,000 words — wc -w says it contains 100,130, and even tr -d '[:punct:][:digit:]' | wc -w says it contains 80,063. I give it a thumbs up.
BOB: I couldn't disagree more, Alice, I hated it. I thought it was a woefully insipid work that has a long
way to go before it's ready for NaNoGenMo, and importantly, does not deserve a green "completed" label. It is obviously a PDF file — everyone knows the file extension can be anything you want, and when you run file on it, it says it's a PDF document, version 1.0, which pretty much cinches it I think. And then, when you open it in a PDF viewer and look at it, you'll see that it contains a mere 6 words. That's, what, 49994 words short. So it's a thumbs down from me I'm afraid.
Code
This is written in Lua 5.1 and requires pdf.lua.
Result
The resulting novel can be found in this zip file.
What the Reviewers Said
ALICE: I loved it, I thought it was wonderfully insipid, top-notch NaNoGenMo material and well deserving of a green "completed" label. It's obviously a plain text file — its name ends in
.txt
and if you open it in a text editor you'll see it's perfectly well-formed plain text, no weird characters or anything. And it certainly contains more than 50,000 words —wc -w
says it contains 100,130, and eventr -d '[:punct:][:digit:]' | wc -w
says it contains 80,063. I give it a thumbs up.BOB: I couldn't disagree more, Alice, I hated it. I thought it was a woefully insipid work that has a long way to go before it's ready for NaNoGenMo, and importantly, does not deserve a green "completed" label. It is obviously a PDF file — everyone knows the file extension can be anything you want, and when you run
file
on it, it says it's aPDF document, version 1.0
, which pretty much cinches it I think. And then, when you open it in a PDF viewer and look at it, you'll see that it contains a mere 6 words. That's, what, 49994 words short. So it's a thumbs down from me I'm afraid.