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Moritz Flöter updated PDFBOX-5584:
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Priority: Minor (was: Major)
> Plugins for PDFDebugger
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> Key: PDFBOX-5584
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5584
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Utilities
> Reporter: Moritz Flöter
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: 2023-04-12_09-00-01_explorer_bmps4tqOTT.png
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> The PDFBox Debugger is a great tool for analyzing PDF documents due to its
> functionality and licence.
> However, it is constrained to what PDFBox itself can do. We extended the
> Debugger to accomplish some of the more frequent tasks needed for processing
> service tickets for our own software product.
> !2023-04-12_09-00-01_explorer_bmps4tqOTT.png!
> Some of the extended functionality relies on our proprietary PDF processing
> (this is completely separate from PDFBox) but other features rely on
> Implementations around PDFBOX functionality (such as drawing PrintBoxes or
> moving them, removing document security attributes for subsequent analysis in
> other tools etc.).
> There is also functionality that relies on Java-Libraries like VeraPDF,
> OpenPDF or even calls to external command line tools like ghostscript and
> pdfcpu (the latter with bundled binaries, the former without because of GPL).
> We would very much like to publish and contribute Plugins for the Debugger
> but as of now, everything is based on a direct extension (even using some
> Reflection) of the PDFDebugger class and thus can not be made available (as
> it also relies on our proprietary PDF code). Furthermore, dependencies to
> external software or third party PDF libraries really should not be directly
> integrated in the main PDFBox repositories.
> I do however not see any harm in having such dependencies for plugins that
> are provided in different repositories and possibly developed and maintained
> by other developers. So I do see a benefit in having a Plugin-Interface in
> PDFDebugger.
> Most likely the group of people making and using such plugins is rather small
> but I still wanted too run the idea by you in case you are interested.
> I am also willing to work on this feature if I am provided with some input as
> to what you expect.
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