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Glen Peterson commented on PDFBOX-1527:
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Tilman Hausherr: I've replaced the files with the verses removed. I'm not
trying to promote any countries or their views with the national anthems, they
are merely a convenient way to test character sets. It's good timing because I
just improved table handling.
Yes PdfLayoutManager has "cellpadding" like HTML (the space between a cell
border and the contents), but not "cellspacing" (the space between borders of
adjacent cells). There is a bug where it doesn't handle a negative cell
interior width, so you have to be a little careful, but it works.
http://blog.planbase.com/2014/08/metric-review-pdf-report.html
Questions like this are specific to PdfLayoutManager, not PDFBox, so future
ones should go on GitHub here:
https://github.com/GlenKPeterson/PdfLayoutManager/issues
We should probably revisit merging that code into PDFBox at some point, but
PlanBase added limitations to the scope of the Apache PDFBox contributors
agreement which were not acceptable to the Apache Foundation. No one is at
fault here except possibly myself. The license is the same, the general
concept of the Apache Contributors Agreement is acceptable, but PlanBase is a
for-profit company who doesn't want their code used by competitors. Limiting
the scope of potential contributions is important to PlanBase.
Contributing paid development done under NDA to an open source project is a
delicate experiment. PlanBase is built on open source software (carefully,
legally, and honoring the license terms), and PdfLayoutManager is what we give
back. If someone were to add functionality to PdfLayoutManager, or clean up
the code, fix bugs, whatever, that might give open source participation at
PlanBase some political capital that might be used to revisit the scope of the
contributors agreement. No promises. As with any open-source project or legal
hurdle, patience is required...
I certainly don't want to take any development effort away from PDFBox or offer
false hope that PdfLayoutManager will ever be merged into it. Just laying out
the most likely path as I see it.
Constructive criticism is welcome, but please be aware that anyone could be
watching this conversation and keep it polite and positive if your aim is to
grease the wheels of any legal headway on this issue. That probably goes for
any open-source project, but certainly bears repeating here.
> Added table cells, page breaking, line, breaking, and transliteration
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> Key: PDFBOX-1527
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1527
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Writing
> Affects Versions: 1.8.0
> Reporter: Glen Peterson
> Labels: features
> Attachments: TestPdfLayoutMgr.java, test.pdf
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> PlanBase and I would like to contribute our line-breaking, page-breaking,
> table cell, and transliteration code to the PDFBox project. I think someone
> on the mailing list asked me to open an issue here and attach a patch, so
> that is what I'm doing.
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