Hi Benjamin, I know that viewer, I have spent one week on Internet searching for an easy integrable pdf viewer. I have spent so much time in this research that my wife tolds me: "are you searching for a lover???" :) :)
pdf-render is not a real API to integrate a pdf-view into your application. Is just what it states: a pdf-viewer application, not an API "for pdf view integration". Do you understand the point? The project is a little stand-alone java application. Can you imagine how many nights you must spend to understand all inner details and modify the viewer behaviour to meet needs of your own application? Yes, it can be done, but I have calculated that the effort is comparable to write your API from the scratch (!!!). If you want to "fight" with javadocs you wil find (in any pdf library, not only in the pdf-viewer project) a huge list of methods named like: "setYYY", "setKKK" and description is something like: "this method set the YYY value, this method sets the KKK value...." and so on. Wao! Is a great help for me! :) Honestly speaking, integrating a such that implementation in your application can become a nightmare. I really don't understand why programmers in this project don't want spend time in producing documentation, I really don't understand why. There is a common behaviour in all free-project community: time spent on documentation is lost time. Nothing can be more wrong: if you don't comunicate the general overview of the architecture of your solution how I can fully understand potential features of that solutions? When I take a look at that projects I saw only a list of cryptic methods. Italian says: "my face looks like the one of the cow watching the train running..." :) :) (I hope translation is right) The pdf-render project has very poor documentation... no tutorials, no UML diagrams, no specification documents. What pdf-renderer project offers is: 1 example on how open a pdf; 1 example on how draw an image; 11 short messages in the mailing list... Really you think this is a good project??? On the counterwise, JPedal offer a complete application example (even terrible, hostic, cryptic). Anyway really thanks, for your suggestion. I have appreciated it. Sincerely, Giulio Buccini. Benjamin Wohlwend wrote: > > Hi, > > > Giulio Buccini wrote: >> >> Returning to your point, there are not so much free PDF viewer >> implemented in Java. Most of them are becomed commercial products while >> the others are really poor and bad implemented. >> I have adopted the JPedal Standard implementation (the one that is free): >> no documentation but a terrible simple application used as reference for >> free-users (it seems like an old old old old C code translated in java - >> can you imagine what a mess?? Mamma mia!). >> > > I don't know if it helps, but Sun released a free (LGPL) PDF renderer a > few weeks ago. It is implemented completely in Java, you can render the > document on arbitrary Swing components, on a Graphics2D context or in an > image. I don't know if the API is reasonable, but the examples look quite > straight forward. > > https://pdf-renderer.dev.java.net/ > > Kind regards, > > Benjamin Wohlwend > ----- Giulio Buccini -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-navigate-scroll-inside-the-PreviewPanel-tp14515390p14753938.html Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
