Thus spake Thomas Russ:
> 
> On Sep 14, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Porter235 wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 14 September 2006 09:05, Joel Uckelman wrote:
> >> The HTML panel is missing support for a lot of HTML and CSS which  
> >> I use,
> >> and I'd rather avoid rendering charts as bitmaps. Would anyone be
> >> interested in having a panel which can display PostScript or PDF?
> >
> > I would be interested in the ability to use PDFs.
> 
> Well, this is a bit tricky to get.
> 
> There isn't much in the way of Java-based, free PDF viewers.
> Most of the PDF viewer software that is available is licensed
> commercially.  There is one commercial product (JPedal at
> http://www.jpedal.org/ ) that is also available as GPL, but
> that requires the entire project that uses it to be a GPL project.

That's the one I was looking at, but I hadn't been considering the
license issues. Unfortunately, VASSAL is LGPL, JPedal is GPL, and
Batik (around which I'm building SVG support) is Apache, so we can
use at most two of them at once.

-- 
J.


 
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