On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 6:03 PM, K K Subbu <kksubbu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 13 November 2017 09:50 AM, Ben Coman wrote: > >> I've managed to build PDFium into a shared library on Ubuntu 16.04. >> (I'll announce a blog post on this later.) >> Now I'm considering the best bitmap format to bring the rendered page >> back into Pharo. >> > > Have you considered importing PDFs as a sequence of compressed PNGs into > Pharo? If you not interested in twiddling pixels in the imported PDFs, > perhaps PNG may be sufficient. They take up lesser space and easier to move > around or re-export. > > Regards .. Subbu > Yes, I've certainly considered it. Pragmatically, in my electrical career I deal with a lot of single page A3 PDF scans of schematic drawings, so pre-converting to a bitmap format outside of Pharo wouldn't lose much. But I've wanted PDF rendering inside Pharo for *years* and finally got a sniff of a solid possibility - so I'm chasing it down. It might not pan out like I imagine, but "Live programming PDF documents" seems like a catchy meme that the broader community may find intriguing. Really, I'm just curious about what might be possible and can only discover that by walking the way. cheers -ben
