Jukka, I realize that you may not understand the issues involved and there are many. The retro translator you mentioned lists a number of problems that are not 1.4 backward compatible. This could cause a failure in a production environment which is unacceptable. Porting the library to 1.5 because its 'cool' or I wanna do it, is not a valid business reason to do so. I respect the original author's intent of making the library 1.4 compatible to reach the widest usage possible. Please release the PDFBox changes as 1.4 compatible or our company and others will be stuck on the Sourceforge 0.74 version and continue making changes to it without contribution to the Apache version. Mica Cooper
---------------------------------------- From: "Jukka Zitting" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:01 PM To: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache PDFBox 1.0.0 released Hi, On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Mica Cooper wrote: > I would hope that "[PDFBOX-572] Upgrading PDFBox (incl. JempBox and > FontBox) to use Java 5" Does not mean that PDFBox is now incompatible with > JDK 1.4 as it previously was. Yes. > This would be a huge problem for many companies. If you're unable (why?) to upgrade to a more modern JVM but want to use the latest PDFBox release, I suggest using tools like Retrotranslator (http://retrotranslator.sourceforge.net/) as a workaround. BR, Jukka Zitting
