I'm happy to announce we've reached our first checkpoint two days early.
We have elementary drawing operations, color support, and page size /
oreintation features.
I've written a summary of how things have been going so far to celebrate:
http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/05/ruby_mendicant_hadean_prawn.html
From here, I'll start on Archean Prawn, which consists of text
rendering primitives and maybe some more. I'll be sure to update the
development plans page in lighthouse soon.
-greg
Great to hear, that it is proceeding well!