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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-5716:
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The "crash" you mention is because of a java bug workaround that does a static
initialization of RGB stuff.
{quote}What happens if you wish to support some file-format that's not
supported by AWT{quote}
They'll have to pass it as a BufferedImage.
> Request: offer Android to also use this library, by removing all usages of AWT
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> Key: PDFBOX-5716
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5716
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: FontBox
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0 PDFBox
> Reporter: AD_LB
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: 2023-11-12_02-31-29.png, pdfTest.zip
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> I'm a newb to PDFBox, so I just wanted to try it out, to see how to create
> texts, hyperlinks, and images.
> Sadly, even with the most basic thing, of creating a new instance of
> PDDocument, this library fails to be used on Android, as it requires AWT for
> many things, including this simple creation.
> Android barely has anything related to AWT, as it has its own implementations
> of color, bitmaps, etc...
> I've also noticed that it's used for images (and probably colors and fonts as
> well), which makes it hard to overcome on Android.
> I think there is only one library out there that is "forked" out of PDFBox
> and works for Android, but it's barely maintained and is stuck in the past:
> https://github.com/TomRoush/PdfBox-Android
> Please offer some way to still use this library even on Android, without
> weird workarounds.
> Maybe offer some common things that are shared between the platforms.
> For color/pixel, for example, it can be one that has ARGB values, and for
> bitmap, it can be an array of such pixels, with definition to get
> width&height of the bitmap.
> Perhaps look at the library's implementation and see what can be common and
> what can be an additional dependency.
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