> > As I said in a previous e-mail (Sep 10), we downloaded PDF box > > (www.pdfbox.org), but it seems to us a bit hard to use. > > This project uses the BSD license. I think this can be a good candidate > for integration with Cocoon. Because of the BSD license, We can be able to > include the code and distribute the library as part of the cocon releases.
Understood. For now, we continue on this line, at least today. > > It seems to have a viewer, and so it seems to draw on a Graphics. This > > could be used combined with Batik to generate SVG... but that seems a > > bit overkill. I still believe that this sort of SVG generation is overkill. Does anyone agree that a PDF operation processor that spits SVG may be simpler to achieve? Most importantly, I reckon this approach allows us to generate simple SVG without bells and whistles (e.g. only positioned text on a correctly sized page), and improve it with time. > > We also found Etymon PJX (www.etymon.com/epub.html), but it's like the > > hard part of pdfbox, but without the easier part concerning the > > Graphics. > > This one is GPL. The integration with Cocoon will be more dificult. Same > case as Hibernate. OK. Difficult to use + Difficult license integration = Discarded. > OF course this is just from the license POV. I have not experience with > neither of them. Sorry, but... What POV? A google search por POV or POV PDF leaded to "povray" and many "point of view". Thank you very much. Antonio Fiol
