Hi,

We have an optional plugin that allows a user to embed a pdf in a document.

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: John Hewson [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 13 November 2014 19:02
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: pdfbox 2

 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
>> 
> 
> 


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