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Andreas Lehmkühler commented on PDFBOX-4721:
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To donate some code is only half the battle. We would need some people who take
care about the code as well. As Tilman already said, our team is small and
short-handed. Our TODO-pipeline is still very long and we can't handle more
without more helping hands.
However, a possible high-level api would be a new module sitting on top of our
low-level api. From the users point of view it doesn't make any difference if
such a module is part of PDFBox or some third party library based on PDFBox.
Just add it as dependency and use it.
Perhaps we should add some of the implementations to our FAQ section
> Move Apache PDFBox from a low-API model
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> Key: PDFBOX-4721
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4721
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 2.0.17, 3.0.3 JBIG2
> Reporter: Adrian with an A
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: image-2019-12-25-11-00-48-242.png
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> 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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