I would support the idea of building these GUI tools and if I can find the free time, would even contribute code or at least testing.
But it should be implemented as a separate project that is dependent on PDFBox. My concern is keeping PDFBox itself somewhat cohesive at being a library of services. Doing it this way also gives you the advantage of targeting a specific version (i.e. the latest 'release' version) of PDFBox upon which to build the GUI, rather than the moving target that is the development version. 'Need a good name for the project. Just my $.02. -----Original Message----- From: nisen [mailto:nisen...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 9:35 PM To: dev@pdfbox.apache.org Subject: Re: [idea] PdfReader In Google Summer of Code 2010 I am this discuss beginer. Sorry for late reply.I just came back from China Spring Festival and returned to working mode. I study a lot from your reply.I summary next: * Not only a reader,it's a PDFBoxGUI:reader,editor,other tools * There are no APL/ASL PDF GUI * Everyone like the idea but have no much time.We are busy :) * plug-ins other PDF GUI (open source,share or commercial) * inforama ( http://www.inforama.org ) * NeoOffice * Adobe Acrobat Professional * Foxit (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/) * xpdf * ICEpdf * more ......... need you add 2010/1/30 Dexter Mishra <dexter.mis...@gmail.com>: > Well neither I have been a mentor, nor want to be. But if some help is > needed I can. > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Jeremias Maerki > <d...@jeremias-maerki.ch>wrote: > >> My experiences with GSoC were not all that positive. Therefore, I'm not >> offering to be a GSoC mentor anymore. Well, maybe I should not have >> taken two students at once but still, if the student isn't focused >> enough, all the mentoring doesn't help. >> >> I do have an interest in building this PDFBox GUI. I could have used a >> good tool for various PDF-related tasks many times. But I don't think I >> can invest enough time to take up a lead position here. I'm happy to >> invest some time for the design discussion and help with some coding. >> >> On 29.01.2010 13:07:18 Jukka Zitting wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > 2010/1/28 <a...@swmc.com>: >> > > I like the idea. The question is... are there are enough people >> willing >> > > to dedicate the time to code this? >> > >> > I guess the original proposal was to start this effort as a Google >> > Summer of Code (GSoC) project during next summer. That would give us a >> > dedicated student working on the code, but we'd need to have someone >> > from the PDFBox team who's ready to invest enough time and effort in >> > mentoring the student through the summer. >> > >> > I've been a GSoC mentor a few times before, and it's quite rewarding >> > especially if you have a motivated and skilled student to work with. >> > However, effective mentoring does require consistent effort through >> > the summer (I estimate some 2 hours per week) and unfortunately at >> > least I can't promise to have enough extra cycles for that this year. >> > >> > BR, >> > >> > Jukka Zitting >> >> >> >> >> Jeremias Maerki >> >> > -- nisen 倪森 from China Blog: http://nisen.javaeye.com
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