Thanks, Maruan. I've added mine at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2691
Manfred, if you'd add a comment explaining your use case, I'm sure that will help the active developers evaluate possible solutions. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Daniel, hi Manfred, > > if you could describe your use case - maybe in a JIRA ticket with an > enhancement request or by discussing it further in the mailing list - we > might be able to come up with a solution. There are many changes in PDFBox > 2.0 compared to 1.8 with the intention to make it better and not with the > intention to leave people with a good use case behind. In PDFBox 1.8 and > before a lot was public which didn't have to be that way and made changes > behind the scenes nearly impossible. That's the main reason why things have > been made private, package private and final. Having a cleaner public API > has been the driving factor behind these decisions. > > BR > Maruan > > PS: I'm not using PDFBox for rendering - so please understand my comment > as a general feedback. I think that John, Tilman and others who worked on > for PDFBox 2.0 will be able to provide a more targeted feedback. > > > Am 24.02.2015 um 19:47 schrieb Daniel Wilson < > [email protected]>: > > > That disappoints me too. I have been deriving from Page drawer for > several > > years in order to render in .Net. in order to use 2.0, I would need to > make > > my own build of PDF box that changed that. > > On Feb 24, 2015 8:24 AM, "Manfred Pock" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> why it ist not allowed to derivate or set the an own PageDrawer at the > >> current trunk-version of Pdfbox. > >> > >> It is not possible to derivate it because the PageDrawer is final. It's > >> also not possible to set the PageDrawer because he is defined fixed in > >> PDFRenderer. > >> > >> I need this, because i want to paint some annotation at my own. The only > >> thing i can to without any Pdfbox-codechanges to remove this annotations > >> before i render it. > >> > >> Could there be a better solution. > >> > >> Regarts, Manfred > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >> > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
