So you have dependencies on other PDFBox APIs? Those might not be as stable, but I’ll need some details in order to offer any advice. I know that FOP has some of its own PDF handling code, so what does FOP use PDFBox for?
-- John > On 13 Nov 2014, at 10:33, Simon Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I would also need snapshot of pdfbox jar. > > Thanks > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Hewson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 13 November 2014 18:13 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: pdfbox 2 > > Hi Simon > > I presume you mean the FontBox snapshot jar, rather than the whole of > PDFBox? > > FontBox is now mostly stable, there are some new APIs which I'm planning on > cleaning up a little before the final release, but only very minor changes. > There are no outstanding regressions or open showstoppers for FontBox, so > using a snapshot release should be fine. Just make sure to note which > revision of the trunk you use, for filing bug reports later. > > If you need any help porting code over to 2.0, feel free to ask on the > mailing list, especially if the source is already public. > > Thanks > > -- John > >> On 13 Nov 2014, at 03:22, Simon Steiner <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> Apache Fop project needs to make a release in next few weeks. >> >> We currently include pdfbox 2 snapshot jars since we can't rely on awt >> parsing fonts in 1.8 as this doesn't work under Java 7, pdfbox 2 fixed >> this by writing its own font parsers. >> >> Also we make use of font parsers added in 2.0 and many other bugs fixed. >> >> >> >> Can Fop project make a release including PDFBox 2.0 snapshot jars in >> our release? >> >> >> >> Thanks >> > >
