Hello Pietro, hello all, > On 12 August 2019 at 23:24 Pietro Paolini > <pietro.paol...@cognitivecredit.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I've stumbled upon this library only a few days ago and I noticed that > the downloadable version from > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/podofo/files/podofo/0.9.6/podofo-0.9.6.tar.gz/download > > Does not compile, at least on my system, while what I get right off > trunk does compile.
in the meantime some issues were fixed which could have had made it difficult to compile podofo, a number of security/crash issues were also fixed, so it is definitely recommended to only use current svn trunk anymore. On Tuesday, August 13, in the afternoon, I'll very probably commit (I'm a full committer) a fix for issue #58 (plus some debug code to avoid such issues being so difficult to debug as this was for me). I'd just like to run some further tests with it, which are likely to pass, could you please hold out until then? > > I am exploring the possibility of using the library to inspect PDFs, > making some analysis on them and saving the PDF result of some > processing. A good example could be hidden text. > > It seems to be able to parse the input PDF and to "translate" in into an > a "PdfVecObjects" but I have not found - within the time I had available > for it, I should mention - a way to render the PDFs on screen. PoDoFo is suitable for analyzing PDF documents, modify them (text editing is still very limited, mostly adding is supported yet), and create them, but what it doesn't do at all (because it's outside its scope) is rendering. There are other libraries for that, a popular free (open source) one is libpoppler (homepage URL https://poppler.freedesktop.org/ ), except for some commenting functionality it does exclusively rendering (AFAIK), so IMHO it's a good complement to PoDoFo which you'd use for the analysis and transformation (sorry, colour space support is still rather limited, I hope that'll change before 1.0 ;-) ). > > Is there an example somewhere for it ? For rendering, please see the libpoppler homepage, for creation, there are examples in that directory under podofo trunk, for analysis, please see the tools directory's sub-directories there (podofopdfinfo could be a good start). > > Thanks, > Pietro. > I hope this helps. Best regards, Matthew _______________________________________________ Podofo-users mailing list Podofo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/podofo-users
