I wonder if Adobe would donate their java code. I understand that they have given up on it. Anyone with Adobe connections?
----- Original Message ----- From: W. Eliot Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Lucene Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:58 PM Subject: Re: PDF4J Project: Gathering Feature Requests > Peter Carlson wrote: > > > > This is very exciting. > > > > Are you planning on basing the code on other pdf readers / writers? > > At this point I haven't found any Java PDF reader that meets my > requirements. One of the motivations for doing this is the problems we > had using Etymon's PJ library: both the license (GPL, not LGPL) and the > quality of the code itself, which does not meet our engineering > standards. I want to use an LGPL library so that people can use the code > in projects that are not themselves open sourced but I want the library > itself to be protected. > > For writing, may or may not be able to leverage existing code, don't > know yet. > > Note too that there are two aspects of writing: creating a valid PDF > data stream and creating meaningful page layouts--we are not addressing > the second of these (there are lots of libraries that will create useful > PDF output from various non-PDF inputs). Our main writing usecase is the > rewriting of existing PDFs following some amount of manipulation through > our API. > > A caution: I am still waiting to get approval from my employers to do > this work as open source--it may be a while before I can even start on > the coding. > > Cheers, > > Eliot > -- > W. Eliot Kimber, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Consultant, ISOGEN International > > 1016 La Posada Dr., Suite 240 > Austin, TX 78752 Phone: 512.656.4139 > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
