PDFReader name gives the wrong message to people. People are more attracted towards other names as composer (can read, compose documents). I can devote some time for the project, I have been using adobe libraries, and some time back I created a hack of PDFBox library for our company purpose. It used to read the comments also as sort of metadata. In PDF comments I used to give lua code and used to execute it. I treated comments as dummyCOS objects/user defined cosobjects. and if you are making this opensource later on people will pitch in, initially it needs some dedicated people to work with though.
May be we can make a list of features that it can support. 2010/1/28 <[email protected]> > I like the idea. The question is... are there are enough people willing > to dedicate the time to code this? Also, I disagree about PDFReader being > the wrong name. The class still reads a PDF from the file system and > processes it so it can be rendered, manipulated, etc. > > > > From: > Jeremias Maerki <[email protected]> > To: > [email protected] > Date: > 01/28/2010 00:11 > Subject: > Re: [idea] PdfReader In Google Summer of Code 2010 > > > > I agree, a simple viewer is not so interesting per se (except for the > part that can be intergrated into another application) but what would > really be cool is for PDFBox to also become an OSS alternative for > overpriced Acrobat. There are now all these little command-line tools. > Each one does something different and they are fine for themselves. But > how cool would it be to have a framework for a single PDFBox GUI which > is (1) a PDF viewer and (2) a powerful toolbox to manipulate PDFs? To be > able to add plug-ins for text extraction, page extraction, insertion and > rotation, watermarking, validation etc. etc. PDFDebugger would become a > plug-in for the single GUI, too. PDFReader is then the wrong name. > > On 28.01.2010 07:06:21 Dexter Mishra wrote: > > Well I guess there are already a lot of tools for PDF viewing, the one I > > would really like to see is PDF composition., editing. > > > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 7:42 AM, 倪森 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Google Summer of Code 2010 begin. I have an idea that pdfreader。 > > > And I create a page http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2010 > > > for discuss. > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > "We will begin accepting application from > > > would-be mentoring organizations beginning March 8th at approximately > > > 19:00 UTC, with applications closing on March 12th at 23:00 UTC. > > > Students can apply between 19:00 UTC on March 29th to 19:00 UTC on > > > April 9th." > > > > > > > > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-discuss/browse_thread/thread/d839c0b02ac15b3f > > > > > > > > > Jeremias Maerki > > > > > ? Click here to submit conditions > > This email and any content within or attached hereto from Sun West > Mortgage Company, Inc. is confidential and/or legally privileged. The > information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named > on this email. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby > notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any > action in reliance on the contents of this email information is strictly > prohibited, and that the documents should be returned to this office > immediately by email. Receipt by anyone other than the intended recipient is > not a waiver of any privilege. Please do not include your social security > number, account number, or any other personal or financial information in > the content of the email. Should you have any questions, please call (800) > 453 7884.
