> Am 11.08.2017 um 18:24 schrieb Tilman Hausherr <thaush...@t-online.de>: > > Am 11.08.2017 um 10:07 schrieb Maruan Sahyoun: >> Hi, >> >> with PDF 2.0 being available it might be time to start to introduce some of >> the features in PDFBox (no rush I think as it will need some time to be >> adopted). One feature I would like to discuss if it would be good to >> introduce a version support so one could say to save as PDF 2.0 file or some >> other version. E.g. one could now use utf-8 encoded text strings which will >> introduce issues in readers not supporting that where some of the other >> changes like new properties will simply be ignored. > > We can indicate the version when saving, and we know the version when > loading... Maybe what you mean is to propagate the version to the COS classes?
Yes - as there are some areas in PDF 2.0 - such as utf-8 encoded text strings - which we would need to enable e.g. when generating a document from scratch or adding new annotations. Currently if we pass text as an input to some of our setters when writing out the file it will not use utf-8 text strings which is fine as it will ensure that older readers are able to read the content. But if you'd like to 'enforce' 2.0 there is currently now way in doing so. For other areas where there is a new 'PDF Object' or property with 2.0 we can wait until there is demand for it and let the developer decide if that shall be used (the same way we handle it today as there is no specific version support in PDFBox i.e. one could declare the file as being 1.4. compliant but use 1.7 features wthout any complaints). The low level lib we are I think that's acceptable. Maruan > > Tilman > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@pdfbox.apache.org
