Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-lucene-user-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 63233 invoked from network); 6 May 2002 23:51:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 6 May 2002 23:51:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 29129 invoked by uid 97); 6 May 2002 23:51:35 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 29113 invoked by uid 97); 6 May 2002 23:51:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact lucene-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Lucene Users List" Reply-To: "Lucene Users List" Delivered-To: mailing list lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 29101 invoked by uid 98); 6 May 2002 23:51:34 -0000 X-Antivirus: nagoya (v4198 created Apr 24 2002) Errors-To: User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1331 Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 16:51:31 -0700 Subject: Re: PDF4J Project: Gathering Feature Requests From: Peter Carlson To: Lucene Users List Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3CD70A99.69AF0E97@isogen.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Have you looked at xpdf? Www.foolabs.com/xpdf --Peter On 5/6/02 3:58 PM, "W. Eliot Kimber" wrote: > 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, eliot@isogen.com > Consultant, ISOGEN International > > 1016 La Posada Dr., Suite 240 > Austin, TX 78752 Phone: 512.656.4139 > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > For additional commands, e-mail: > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: