Ok, so 4 people have explicitly voted and there were one +0 and three +1. Nobody having objected, and applying lazy consensus, I assume that all the committers are ok with the change and I will proceed to merge the branch back to trunk shortly.
Thanks, Vincent On 21/03/12 15:40, Vincent Hennebert wrote: > Hi All, > > I’ve just uploaded our work on PDF object streams. If accessibility is > enabled and PDF version 1.5 has been selected in the config file, then > the structure tree will be stored in object streams. Support for > cross-reference streams (a successor of the cross-reference table that > appeared in 1.5) has been implemented in order to be able to address > objects stored in object streams. > > The amount of space saved can be substantial, as much as 70% on > a 20-page document. > > The changes are relatively localized and mostly affect the PDF packages. > While there are significant refactorings, there is not a lot of new > code. Therefore I’m inclined to handle this using lazy consensus; So if > nobody objects within 72 hours, I’ll merge the branch back to trunk. > > Side note for those using the PDF Images plug-in: once the branch has > been merged, the plug-in will have to be modified so that PDF objects do > not output the obj/endobj wrapper themselves if they are indirect. This > concerns the PDFBoolean and PDFString classes in > o.a.f.render.pdf.pdfbox. Also, AbstractPDFStream now uses composition > rather than inheritance for its dictionary, which requires changes to > PDFBoxAdapter. Once the PDF Images plug-in has been moved under the > umbrella of the XML Graphics project, we will upload the necessary > changes. > > Thanks, > Vincent
