It might be worth it to take a peak at the old iText. I noticed in a StackOverflow post that it exists. I guess we could make a content disseminator interface. Subclass that to PDF-Citation-CoverPage, then have a PDFBOX implementation, and an iText (LGPL) implementation, and have spring wire it up. So, unfortunately DSpace 5 will have a disclaimer in the instructions that PDFBOX coverpage will not handle unicode characters. So, then for DSpace 6, a year from now. Will PDFBOX update to support unicode characters/fonts, or will LGPL iText be the only route forward. I did contact iText (AGPL) to see if they would create an exception for DSpace, but they declined, basically we'd have to pay per server that will use DSpace, umm. 2000+.
This is post-DSpace-5 work. But I'm thinking that if you think of the OAIS model, of SIP (Submission Package), AIP (Archival Package), DIP (Dissemination Package). That, with PDF Citation Cover page, we have the ability to generate a new DIP for content. (Similar to media filter I guess). So, if we wanted the ability to add Download As RTF, DOC, etc, that could be an extension to disseminator. Keeping the original PDF as "Archive / AIP". ________________ Peter Dietz Longsight www.longsight.com [email protected] p: 740-599-5005 x809 On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 7:41 AM, helix84 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Adán, > > we've already been using PDFbox in DSpace before this feature for PDF > text extraction and thumbnail generation in filter-media and as a PDF > packager, so this is a good choice. That said, we'll need to address > the encoding issue mentioned and described in [1] - probably by > upgrading when PDFbox 2 is released and uploaded to Maven Central, but > if you can find another way, a patch for 5.x will be highly > appreciated. > > [1] https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-2224 > > > Regards, > ~~helix84 > > Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette >
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