2013/1/30 Michael Van Canneyt <[email protected]> > On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, silvioprog wrote: > >> Interesting. >> >> Do you think the basics could be included in the standard FPC >> distribution ? >> >> Michael. >> >> >> Perfectly. IMHO, PowerPDF is well modeled, separated by layers. My >> changes uses pure FCL. :) >> >> There are some things to be improved in PowerPDF: >> >> . Native support to PNG images; (I'm working on this) >> . Use a new version of PDF (at least 1.4); >> . FlateDecode support; (I'm studying this right now) >> . Removes LCL dependences; (I'm studying this right now) >> >> I was thinking of creating a fork and work on it, but if these new >> changes can be implemented PowerPDF and distributed in FPC, I would be very >> happy. :) >> > > I would be happy too :-) >
:D > ps. IMHO, this is wrong: https://github.com/jepafi/** >> Free-JPDF-Pascal/blob/master/**libjpfpdf.pas#L1681<https://github.com/jepafi/Free-JPDF-Pascal/blob/master/libjpfpdf.pas#L1681>. >> He promises to support multiple images, but internally it >> converts them all to JPEG, and this causes lose quality in some images. >> PDF supports PNG natively, but need to implement the specification >> exactly how Adobe explains. Two explains below: >> > > If you can implement the PNG support, then we could add it all to FPC in > one go, if the author agrees. > > Michael. The PowerPDF's author: Copyright (c) 1999-2001 Takezou. < [email protected]>. Will he participates in this list? :/ If he allows it, I improve all the "Pdf*.pas" units. It is possible to maintain full compatibility with FCL, and provide support for the future FPReport. -- Silvio Clécio My public projects - github.com/silvioprog
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