Re: pdfbox develpment
Hi , I started with the documentation of some tools and opened an issue in JIRA for that (PDFBOX-653). Please let me know if that workflow is OK for you or if I should use a different approach. Kind regards Maruan Sahyoun Am 09.03.2010 um 09:37 schrieb Andreas Lehmkühler: Hi, Betreff: Re: pdfbox develpment Gesendet: Di, 09. Mrz 2010 Von: Maruan Sahyounsahy...@fileaffairs.de Hi, we were looking to start fixing some of the open issues but can instead develop some small tutorials for common tasks like text extraction, forms handling and highlighting. WDYT Sounds good to me. Some of the command line utilities are already described at [1] and some other documentation can be found at [2], so that will be a good point to start. IMHO, the following command line tools should be described anyway: - PDFSplit, PDFMerger, Overlay - PDFReader - PDFDebugger These can be found here [3]. Probably we should describe some/all of the examples which can be found here [4]. The sources for the documentation itself can be found here [5] BR Andreas Lehmkühler [1] http://pdfbox.apache.org/commandlineutilities/index.html [2] http://pdfbox.apache.org/userguide/index.html [3] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/pdfbox/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/ [4] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/pdfbox/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/examples/ [5] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/pdfbox/trunk/src/site/ Kind regards Maruan Sahyoun Am 09.03.2010 um 07:58 schrieb Andreas Lehmkuehler: Hi, Michael Müller schrieb: Daniel, Yes, I found some activities on the lists. But on the project site neither developer nor commiter. Just missing documentation? ;-) Great to hear, this project is alive. I have big problems to use it, due to missing or vague docs. EG: setTextMatrix public void setTextMatrix(double a, double b, double c, double d, double e, double f) What's a, b, c, d, e, f? I figured out, e and f to be coordinates. Would be much better to name this x and y or to enhance this documentation. These values correspond to the naming used in the pdf reference for a matrix. Maybe enhancing documentaion is an entry point for me to support the project? Or does any doc exists beside the published java docs? Be our guest, a good and complete documentation is always useful, especially for beginners. BR Andreas Lehmkühler --- original Nachricht Ende
Re: pdfbox develpment
Hi, Maruan Sahyoun schrieb: Hi , I started with the documentation of some tools and opened an issue in JIRA for that (PDFBOX-653). Please let me know if that workflow is OK for you or if I should use a different approach. The workflow ist quite perfect. BR Andreas Lehmkühler
Re: pdfbox develpment
Daniel, Yes, I found some activities on the lists. But on the project site neither developer nor commiter. Just missing documentation? ;-) Great to hear, this project is alive. I have big problems to use it, due to missing or vague docs. EG: setTextMatrix public void setTextMatrix(double a, double b, double c, double d, double e, double f) What's a, b, c, d, e, f? I figured out, e and f to be coordinates. Would be much better to name this x and y or to enhance this documentation. Maybe enhancing documentaion is an entry point for me to support the project? Or does any doc exists beside the published java docs? Best, Michael Am 08.03.2010 22:30, schrieb Daniel Wilson: No, not dead at all! If you'll have a look at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX you'll see that we are updating and resolving issues actively. Most of the committers have started by adding patches. So if you can solve some problems, enhance capabilities, etc., that's great! Daniel On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Michael Müller michael.muel...@mueller-bruehl.de wrote: Hi, I just started using pdfbox and like to help to develop. But in project team list neither members nor contributers are listed. Has development stoped? Is pdfbox dead? :( Michael
Re: pdfbox develpment
There is the user guide: http://pdfbox.apache.org/userguide/faq.html Then there's the Javadoc stuff ... and there's the PDF reference that Adobe provides: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/ In many cases, function and parameter names have some reference to the PDF reference. I don't know about setTextMatrix. I'm sure some more documentation would be appreciated. Daniel On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Michael Müller michael.muel...@mueller-bruehl.de wrote: Daniel, Yes, I found some activities on the lists. But on the project site neither developer nor commiter. Just missing documentation? ;-) Great to hear, this project is alive. I have big problems to use it, due to missing or vague docs. EG: setTextMatrix public void setTextMatrix(double a, double b, double c, double d, double e, double f) What's a, b, c, d, e, f? I figured out, e and f to be coordinates. Would be much better to name this x and y or to enhance this documentation. Maybe enhancing documentaion is an entry point for me to support the project? Or does any doc exists beside the published java docs? Best, Michael Am 08.03.2010 22:30, schrieb Daniel Wilson: No, not dead at all! If you'll have a look at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX you'll see that we are updating and resolving issues actively. Most of the committers have started by adding patches. So if you can solve some problems, enhance capabilities, etc., that's great! Daniel On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Michael Müller michael.muel...@mueller-bruehl.de wrote: Hi, I just started using pdfbox and like to help to develop. But in project team list neither members nor contributers are listed. Has development stoped? Is pdfbox dead? :( Michael
Re: pdfbox develpment
Hmm, I know this. Don't call a hint just to open a pdf a full documentation! True, it's hard to document. Me too, I prefer coding than to writing docs... Michael Am 08.03.2010 23:07, schrieb Daniel Wilson: There is the user guide: http://pdfbox.apache.org/userguide/faq.html Then there's the Javadoc stuff ... and there's the PDF reference that Adobe provides: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/ In many cases, function and parameter names have some reference to the PDF reference. I don't know about setTextMatrix. I'm sure some more documentation would be appreciated. Daniel On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Michael Müller michael.muel...@mueller-bruehl.de wrote: Daniel, Yes, I found some activities on the lists. But on the project site neither developer nor commiter. Just missing documentation? ;-) Great to hear, this project is alive. I have big problems to use it, due to missing or vague docs. EG: setTextMatrix public void setTextMatrix(double a, double b, double c, double d, double e, double f) What's a, b, c, d, e, f? I figured out, e and f to be coordinates. Would be much better to name this x and y or to enhance this documentation. Maybe enhancing documentaion is an entry point for me to support the project? Or does any doc exists beside the published java docs? Best, Michael Am 08.03.2010 22:30, schrieb Daniel Wilson: No, not dead at all! If you'll have a look at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX you'll see that we are updating and resolving issues actively. Most of the committers have started by adding patches. So if you can solve some problems, enhance capabilities, etc., that's great! Daniel On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Michael Müller michael.muel...@mueller-bruehl.de wrote: Hi, I just started using pdfbox and like to help to develop. But in project team list neither members nor contributers are listed. Has development stoped? Is pdfbox dead? :( Michael
Re: pdfbox develpment
OK. I filed a JIRA. I would have put myself into the page, but I don't know how and, more importantly, I am not a committer nor even really a contributor just yet. Real committers should speak up! https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-651 On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Michael Müller michael.muel...@mueller-bruehl.de wrote: http://pdfbox.apache.org/team-list.html Am 09.03.2010 05:44, schrieb Ted Dunning: Which project site were you looking at? On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Michael Müller michael.muel...@mueller-bruehl.de wrote: But on the project site neither developer nor commiter. Just missing documentation? ;-)
Re: pdfbox develpment
Hi, Michael Müller schrieb: Daniel, Yes, I found some activities on the lists. But on the project site neither developer nor commiter. Just missing documentation? ;-) Great to hear, this project is alive. I have big problems to use it, due to missing or vague docs. EG: setTextMatrix public void setTextMatrix(double a, double b, double c, double d, double e, double f) What's a, b, c, d, e, f? I figured out, e and f to be coordinates. Would be much better to name this x and y or to enhance this documentation. These values correspond to the naming used in the pdf reference for a matrix. Maybe enhancing documentaion is an entry point for me to support the project? Or does any doc exists beside the published java docs? Be our guest, a good and complete documentation is always useful, especially for beginners. BR Andreas Lehmkühler
