RE: MIDRANGE-L Digest, Vol 13, Issue 1934

Yeah PDF becomes almost trivial with iText.

No object refrences, pointers or offsets to think about.

Just good old SMASH !!

Regards,

Richard Schoen | Director of Document Management Technologies, HelpSystems
T: + 1 952-486-6802
RJS Software Systems | A Division of HelpSystems
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message: 3
date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 13:07:38 -0600
from: Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Merging PDFs

Jon

I think the answer is going to be "bite the bullet" then. I understand your concerns coming from an ISV standpoint. But remember you're also asking for functional code to implement in yours for basically nothing.

Merging PDFs isn't "that simple". I stand by that. :) Although I am waiting for the C code that was promised to see if there's something about the PDF spec I'm missing. It's not just slapping two files together.
Object references, etc... they can get messy.

As a side, our PDF "concater" requires min V5R2 and Java 1.4 (it uses an old version of iText). Those are both VERY old and if someone is on older
OS versions than that, well, there are other issues. But I do understand
the issue with if they already have a package installed (for example, if they had our SPLTOOL and put your software one there would be 2 copies of the .jars and commands). And working with class paths stinks.

Good luck in your venture, though. I've been there too a few times with many projects.. I think I spent a couple months or so a few years back just going over the PDF spec when I was doing all my PDF stuff for our software. And that was a very rudimentary version of PDF files (basically just plain text).

Brad
www.bvstools.com


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