I agree, a simple viewer is not so interesting per se (except for the part that can be intergrated into another application) but what would really be cool is for PDFBox to also become an OSS alternative for overpriced Acrobat. There are now all these little command-line tools. Each one does something different and they are fine for themselves. But how cool would it be to have a framework for a single PDFBox GUI which is (1) a PDF viewer and (2) a powerful toolbox to manipulate PDFs? To be able to add plug-ins for text extraction, page extraction, insertion and rotation, watermarking, validation etc. etc. PDFDebugger would become a plug-in for the single GUI, too. PDFReader is then the wrong name.
On 28.01.2010 07:06:21 Dexter Mishra wrote: > Well I guess there are already a lot of tools for PDF viewing, the one I > would really like to see is PDF composition., editing. > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:42 AM, 倪森 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Google Summer of Code 2010 begin. I have an idea that pdfreader。 > > And I create a page http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2010 > > for discuss. > > > > > > > > --- > > "We will begin accepting application from > > would-be mentoring organizations beginning March 8th at approximately > > 19:00 UTC, with applications closing on March 12th at 23:00 UTC. > > Students can apply between 19:00 UTC on March 29th to 19:00 UTC on > > April 9th." > > > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss/browse_thread/thread/d839c0b02ac15b3f > > Jeremias Maerki
