Peter Carlson wrote: > > This is very exciting. > > Are you planning on basing the code on other pdf readers / writers?
At this point I haven't found any Java PDF reader that meets my requirements. One of the motivations for doing this is the problems we had using Etymon's PJ library: both the license (GPL, not LGPL) and the quality of the code itself, which does not meet our engineering standards. I want to use an LGPL library so that people can use the code in projects that are not themselves open sourced but I want the library itself to be protected. For writing, may or may not be able to leverage existing code, don't know yet. Note too that there are two aspects of writing: creating a valid PDF data stream and creating meaningful page layouts--we are not addressing the second of these (there are lots of libraries that will create useful PDF output from various non-PDF inputs). Our main writing usecase is the rewriting of existing PDFs following some amount of manipulation through our API. A caution: I am still waiting to get approval from my employers to do this work as open source--it may be a while before I can even start on the coding. Cheers, Eliot -- W. Eliot Kimber, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Consultant, ISOGEN International 1016 La Posada Dr., Suite 240 Austin, TX 78752 Phone: 512.656.4139 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
