Re: PDFBox Project for GSoC 2012

2012-03-20 Thread mehdi houshmand
Hi, If you're looking for more ideas, I've got a couple suggestions concerning PDF post-processing which are available with other PDF libraries: 1) PDF optimizations - This could be PDF linearization, image-resolution reduction, font subsetting (when fonts are fully embedded) etc... There are qui

Re: PDFBox Project for GSoC 2012

2012-03-20 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Hey guys On 18.03.2012 03:16:14 Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara wrote: > Hi, > > > Thanks mehdi. > > > I have two ideas for a GSoC task, but need all of your help to select > suitable one. > > >- One project is HTML to PDF and vise versa converter. This feature can >be found in JIRA a

Re: PDFBox Project for GSoC 2012

2012-03-20 Thread Maruan Sahyoun
Hi, suggestions: 1) Mapping PDF features to version and standards e.g. layers in PDF are a PDF 1.5 feature, AES encryption for PDF 1.6. 2) PDF Writer to support versions and standards 3) OpenType support 4) Performance improvements (e.g. with some applications we developed iText is approx. 30%

Re: PDFBox Project for GSoC 2012

2012-03-20 Thread Maruan Sahyoun
Hi, > Hi, > > Am 18.03.2012 03:16, schrieb Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara: >> Hi, >> >> >> Thanks mehdi. >> >> >> I have two ideas for a GSoC task, but need all of your help to select >> suitable one. >> >> >>- One project is HTML to PDF and vise versa converter. This feature can >>

Re: PDFBox Project for GSoC 2012

2012-03-20 Thread mehdi houshmand
> > Although I think that the current PDF Reader can be enhanced in many ways > there are already so many Readers out there as well as PDF support within > web browsers my personal opinion is that enhancing PDFBox core capabilities > would be more beneficial. > > With kind regards > > Maruan Sah

Re: PDFBox Project for GSoC 2012

2012-03-20 Thread Maruan Sahyoun
> > >> >> Although I think that the current PDF Reader can be enhanced in many ways >> there are already so many Readers out there as well as PDF support within >> web browsers my personal opinion is that enhancing PDFBox core capabilities >> would be more beneficial. >> >> With kind regards >

Re: PDFBox Project for GSoC 2012

2012-03-20 Thread Dexter Mishra
I vote for a PDS editor kind of stuff. Another thing regarding the HTML to PDS, cant it be done with XSL-FO feature? Thanks On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Maruan Sahyoun wrote: > > > > > > >> > >> Although I think that the current PDF Reader can be enhanced in many > ways > >> there are alread

Re: PDFBox Project for GSoC 2012

2012-03-20 Thread Timo Boehme
Hi, Am 18.03.2012 03:16, schrieb Tharaka Nayanajith Wijebandara: I have two ideas for a GSoC task, but need all of your help to select suitable one. - One project is HTML to PDF and vise versa converter. ... - Other one is enhancing features of PDF reader and zooming features, pag

[jira] [Created] (PDFBOX-1264) Null Pointer exception on attached PDF/A verifies with commercial validators

2012-03-20 Thread William Fausser (Created) (JIRA)
Null Pointer exception on attached PDF/A verifies with commercial validators Key: PDFBOX-1264 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1264 Project: PDFBox

[jira] [Updated] (PDFBOX-1264) Null Pointer exception on attached PDF/A verifies with commercial validators

2012-03-20 Thread William Fausser (Updated) (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1264?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] William Fausser updated PDFBOX-1264: Attachment: wetterPDFA.pdf > Null Pointer exception on attached PDF/A verifies with co

Re: PDFBox Project for GSoC 2012

2012-03-20 Thread Jeremias Maerki
There are a number of HTML to XSL-FO converters. I've never checked how good the results are but ultimately a native HTML engine is likely to produce better results especially since HTML was not really designed for print and has to be retrofitted in CSS3. But again, this is a large project and, IMO