POV = point of view
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:47:27 +0200, Antonio Fiol Bonn�n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 >
