Harmanpreet, Welcome to the PDFBox community. I agree that it'd be great to have PDFBox run on mobile devices. There has actually been talk about this before. If you haven't already read PDFBOX-586[1], I would encourage you to check this out (specifically the comments). You'll find that PDFBox does run on Android, but there's plenty of room for improvement.
I'm short on time, I don't have an Android phone and last time I tried running the emulator it failed to boot (no errors, just sat there eating up all the CPU cycles), so I don't know how much I'll be able to contribute. But I remember one of the issues brought up was the size of the jar file and memory limitations of small devices. However, each dependency removed will drop some features. For example, dropping icu4j will mean "right to left" languages like Arabic won't be supported, or removing bouncy castle will mean that encrypted PDFs will not be supported (note: no all encrypted documents require a password and these are fairly common). I like Andreas's idea on splitting it into modules. That way you can pick and choose the options you want, and the other options will not be consuming memory/drive space. This will also benefit desktop users because using less memory is always a good thing. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-586 ---- Thanks, Adam From: harmanpreet singh <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 03/15/2011 00:34 Subject: PDFBox for Hand Held devices Hi, I have newly joined this developer forum and I have a proposal for all of PDFBox developers. The PDFBox till date whatever is developed is a desktop solution. But in this era of mobile technology. I think we need to make this PDFBox compatible and tested with J2ME platform, in particular it must be compatible with various Mobile Operating Systems like blackberry, android, Symbian, Windows. With the help of such a tool for mobile the developers will be able to make such application with following features for mobile like Creating Pdf file in mobile. Editing Pdf file in mobile. Able to attach the videos and other things with pdf in mobile. Filling up forms in pdf in mobile. Viewing Pdf in mobile Audio Pdf reader in mobile. All this will be possible only inside the mobile. No external tool or solution will be required to do so. Hence I think this is the best way to this PDF Box library forward. If this library is compared with other PDF libraries like itext and others. PDFBox is a way versatile library than others because it can almost do anything with PDF, but only on desktop. So my proposal is to take it one step ahead and make it to be used in any hand held device in this universe using PDF. So those of developers interested in this new thinking can kindly mail me what they can offer to this proposal if they are interested. I hope everybody understands that It is a process of taking Pdf technology and PDFBox one step forward. regards, with passion for development, Harmanpreet Singh - FHA 203b; 203k; HECM; VA; USDA; Conventional - Warehouse Lines; FHA-Authorized Originators - Lending and Servicing in over 45 States www.swmc.com - www.simplehecmcalculator.com Visit www.swmc.com/resources for helpful links on Training, Webinars, Lender Alerts and Submitting Conditions This email and any content within or attached hereto from Sun West Mortgage Company, Inc. is confidential and/or legally privileged. The information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named on this email. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this email information is strictly prohibited, and that the documents should be returned to this office immediately by email. Receipt by anyone other than the intended recipient is not a waiver of any privilege. Please do not include your social security number, account number, or any other personal or financial information in the content of the email. Should you have any questions, please call (800) 453 7884.
