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

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes - I discovered that when I checked it out yesterday Aaron. 

Not an option for me I think even if I do have to bite the bullet on Java.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Dec 9, 2014, at 2:33 PM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
> > T: + 1 952-486-6802
> > RJS Software Systems | A Division of HelpSystems
> > richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > www.rjssoftware.com
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > 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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