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

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Note that iText went through some significant licensing changes and you
more or less now need to buy a commercial version.

Aaron Bartell

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Richard Schoen <
Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
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> 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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