Even I can contribute to this in my free time, but I agree that it should be separate than PDFBox. Being an academic project can give it a longer life also. Frankly speaking what I would like is a sort of easy debugging tool you can say for PDF also.
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Martinez, Mel - 1004 - MITLL < [email protected]> wrote: > I would support the idea of building these GUI tools and if I can find the > free time, would even contribute code or at least testing. > > But it should be implemented as a separate project that is dependent on > PDFBox. > > My concern is keeping PDFBox itself somewhat cohesive at being a library of > services. > > Doing it this way also gives you the advantage of targeting a specific > version (i.e. the latest 'release' version) of PDFBox upon which to build > the GUI, rather than the moving target that is the development version. > > 'Need a good name for the project. > > Just my $.02. > > -----Original Message----- > From: nisen [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 9:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [idea] PdfReader In Google Summer of Code 2010 > > I am this discuss beginer. > Sorry for late reply.I just came back from China Spring Festival and > returned to working mode. > > I study a lot from your reply.I summary next: > * Not only a reader,it's a PDFBoxGUI:reader,editor,other tools > * There are no APL/ASL PDF GUI > * Everyone like the idea but have no much time.We are busy :) > * plug-ins > > other PDF GUI (open source,share or commercial) > * inforama ( http://www.inforama.org ) > * NeoOffice > * Adobe Acrobat Professional > * Foxit (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/) > * xpdf > * ICEpdf > * more ......... need you add > > > 2010/1/30 Dexter Mishra <[email protected]>: > > Well neither I have been a mentor, nor want to be. But if some help is > > needed I can. > > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Jeremias Maerki <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> My experiences with GSoC were not all that positive. Therefore, I'm not > >> offering to be a GSoC mentor anymore. Well, maybe I should not have > >> taken two students at once but still, if the student isn't focused > >> enough, all the mentoring doesn't help. > >> > >> I do have an interest in building this PDFBox GUI. I could have used a > >> good tool for various PDF-related tasks many times. But I don't think I > >> can invest enough time to take up a lead position here. I'm happy to > >> invest some time for the design discussion and help with some coding. > >> > >> On 29.01.2010 13:07:18 Jukka Zitting wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > 2010/1/28 <[email protected]>: > >> > > I like the idea. The question is... are there are enough people > >> willing > >> > > to dedicate the time to code this? > >> > > >> > I guess the original proposal was to start this effort as a Google > >> > Summer of Code (GSoC) project during next summer. That would give us a > >> > dedicated student working on the code, but we'd need to have someone > >> > from the PDFBox team who's ready to invest enough time and effort in > >> > mentoring the student through the summer. > >> > > >> > I've been a GSoC mentor a few times before, and it's quite rewarding > >> > especially if you have a motivated and skilled student to work with. > >> > However, effective mentoring does require consistent effort through > >> > the summer (I estimate some 2 hours per week) and unfortunately at > >> > least I can't promise to have enough extra cycles for that this year. > >> > > >> > BR, > >> > > >> > Jukka Zitting > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Jeremias Maerki > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > nisen 倪森 from China > Blog: http://nisen.javaeye.com >
