But POI is only for OLE 2 Compound Document format based formats. CNew wrote:
>I can't help but notice the similarities between this effort and the new POI >project at apache (jakharta). > >A lot of the language, vision, etc. maps directly... just substitute "Adobe >PDF" for "Microsoft Excel." and you have a lot of your requirements and >perhaps your solution architecture. > >POI seeks to both read and write. But on the read-side they use an >event-callback technique - similar in concept to SAX for XML. Sounds like a >nice way to do this sort of thing. > >And of course, there is the Lucene connection. They mention Lucene >specifically as a project that needs binary level read access to MS Office >documents. > >but I think that PDF is even more mentioned in this list. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: W. Eliot Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Lucene Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:58 PM >Subject: Re: PDF4J Project: Gathering Feature Requests > > > > >>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]> > > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
