Hi Christian. 2017-09-12 11:38 GMT+02:00 Christian Haider < [email protected]>:
> Moin, > > > > the port is almost done. Then I will add documentation and publish the > code under MIT licence. > Cool. And code repo is not public yet? > > > Including the code used to port the library from VW to Gemstone using a > novel approach. > > > > The heard of the “PDF engine” is the type system which allows the > assignment of Smalltalk classes to raw PDF objects. > > In the new version, the PDF types are decoupled from the Smalltalk > classes, so that classes can be renamed freely (i.e. adding prefixes). > > > > I think that porting the new version to Pharo (and VA and …) has gotten > much easier. > > I hope that someone would take the challenge J. > Definitely > > > Cheers, > > Christian > > > > > > *Von:* Pharo-users [mailto:[email protected]] *Im > Auftrag von *Denis Kudriashov > *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 12. September 2017 11:12 > *An:* Any question about pharo is welcome <[email protected]> > *Betreff:* Re: [Pharo-users] Who is maintaining of Artefact? > > > > Look at slides PDFtalk for Gemstone > <https://www.slideshare.net/esug/pdftalk-for-gemstone> from last ESUG > about porting it to Gemstone (which is done). > > Maybe it is similar as porting GLORP into Pharo. Somebody can comment on > this process. > > > > 2017-09-12 11:04 GMT+02:00 H. Hirzel <[email protected]>: > > Looks like a worthwhile exercise > > PDFTalk https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php > > "The syntax is covered comprehensively, which means that any PDF file > can be read and any PDF object can be written in a conforming way. > > Typical PDF objects are dictionaries of which many are specialized as > Smalltalk objects. > > The library code is annotated with the original descriptions and > definitions from the specification, so that learning about PDF itself > is well supported. " > > I wonder what the main issues would be when porting this to Pharo. > > --Hannes > > > On 9/12/17, Denis Kudriashov <[email protected]> wrote: > > There is also PDFTalk from Christian Haider > > https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php. > > But it needs to be ported into Pharo. > > > > 2017-09-11 21:03 GMT+02:00 Alejandro Infante > > <[email protected]>: > > > >> Hi! > >> I would like to explore having support for Unicode characters. I want to > >> help for it. > >> > >> Who is the right person to talk about it? > >> > >> Cheers! > >> Alejandro > >> > > > > >
