On Sep 14, 2006, at 9:33 AM, Porter235 wrote: > On Thursday 14 September 2006 09:05, Joel Uckelman wrote: >> The HTML panel is missing support for a lot of HTML and CSS which >> I use, >> and I'd rather avoid rendering charts as bitmaps. Would anyone be >> interested in having a panel which can display PostScript or PDF? > > I would be interested in the ability to use PDFs.
Well, this is a bit tricky to get. There isn't much in the way of Java-based, free PDF viewers. Most of the PDF viewer software that is available is licensed commercially. There is one commercial product (JPedal at http://www.jpedal.org/ ) that is also available as GPL, but that requires the entire project that uses it to be a GPL project. iText ( http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ ) is free (LGPL), but only generates PDF, it doesn't display it. Adobe has an ancient Java library, but since it is for JDK 1.1.8, it won't handle any really new PDF formats. It also might not run well on newer JVMs. That pretty much leaves PDFBox ( http://www.pdfbox.org/ ) which I am just downloading now to look at. It may be the only real choice. See, for example http://schmidt.devlib.org/java/libraries-pdf.html So, it may not be all that easy to do PDF, short of calling out to an external viewer. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vassalengine/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vassalengine/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
