I’ve been working with my GSoC student on his GitHub repos to get the C++ code the point where it can be integrated with PDFBox’s existing Java codebase. It’ll be a few weeks yet before it’s ready.
-- John On 6 Oct 2014, at 10:08, Andreas Lehmkuehler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > find attached a quick draft of the board report we're expected to submit this > month. > > @John, @Tilman > Is there anything we should add about GSoC? > > > Any further comments, objections or additions? > > > <draft> > > The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF > documents. > > > General Comments > ---------------- > > There are no issues that require Board attention. > > Community > --------- > > There is a steady stream of contributions and bug reports from the community. > > John Hewson and Tilman Hausherr were added as committers and PMC members to > our ranks in February 2014. > > Jukka Zitting stepped back and went emeritus per his own request in April > 2014. > > 481 (451 last report) subscribers on the user@ list > 155 (153 last report) subscribers on the dev@ list > > Releases > -------- > > Version 1.8.7 was released on 19nd of September 2014. It is an incremental > bugfix release based on PDFBox 1.8.x. > > > Development: > ------------ > > The work on our next major release is an ongoing effort. The main topics are: > > - switch to java 1.6 > - enhance the parser > - code cleanup > - enhance rendering > - enhance font handling > - reduce memory footprint > > We hoped to release the new major release in the late summer but reality > proves us wrong. It'll take some more time. > > </draft> > > BR > Andreas Lehmkühler
