Adrian with an A created PDFBOX-4721:
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Summary: Move Apache PDFBox from a low-API model
Key: PDFBOX-4721
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4721
Project: PDFBox
Issue Type: New Feature
Affects Versions: 3.0.3 JBIG2, 2.0.17
Reporter: Adrian with an A
As of now Apache PDFBox is a low level API project. PDF Box is so mature that
it should have, and must have, higher levels of methods and functions that
helps the users to create PDFs. Looking around the internet one can find that
when people ask for help about PDF Box then it is always the same things, e.g.
"How can I create pages dynamically?", "How do I calculate the height and width
of a page", "Why does lines not split on end of line?", "All of my texts
overwrites themselfs and the pages becomes one page - why?". Having an API
where I have to draw like a child of what I want is something we saw in the
'old days', maybe throughout the years 2000 to 2010.
Look at this repository as a good example:
https://github.com/ralfstuckert/pdfbox-layout .
This man has done what you should / could have done a long time ago. Give him
some money and implement (/improve) his code into PDF Box. Surely it can be
done. He does not update the repository that often, so grabbing it and / or
doing something similar would be great. It have to become more easy to work
with PDF BOXs PDFs. I can imagine that companies around the world would flock
to PDF Box if it was more userfriendly.
I hope that you can start with this as soon as possible, please.
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