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On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:38 AM, Christian Haider <christian.hai...@smalltalked-visuals.com> wrote: > Moin, > > > > the port is almost done. Then I will add documentation and publish the code > under MIT licence. > > > > Including the code used to port the library from VW to Gemstone using a > novel approach. > > > > The heard of the “PDF engine” is the type system which allows the assignment > of Smalltalk classes to raw PDF objects. > > In the new version, the PDF types are decoupled from the Smalltalk classes, > so that classes can be renamed freely (i.e. adding prefixes). > > > > I think that porting the new version to Pharo (and VA and …) has gotten much > easier. > > I hope that someone would take the challenge J. > > > > Cheers, > > Christian > > > > > > Von: Pharo-users [mailto:pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org] Im Auftrag von > Denis Kudriashov > Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. September 2017 11:12 > An: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> > Betreff: Re: [Pharo-users] Who is maintaining of Artefact? > > > > Look at slides PDFtalk for Gemstone from last ESUG about porting it to > Gemstone (which is done). > > Maybe it is similar as porting GLORP into Pharo. Somebody can comment on > this process. > > > > 2017-09-12 11:04 GMT+02:00 H. Hirzel <hannes.hir...@gmail.com>: > > Looks like a worthwhile exercise > > PDFTalk https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php > > "The syntax is covered comprehensively, which means that any PDF file > can be read and any PDF object can be written in a conforming way. > > Typical PDF objects are dictionaries of which many are specialized as > Smalltalk objects. > > The library code is annotated with the original descriptions and > definitions from the specification, so that learning about PDF itself > is well supported. " > > I wonder what the main issues would be when porting this to Pharo. > > --Hannes > > > On 9/12/17, Denis Kudriashov <dionisi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> There is also PDFTalk from Christian Haider >> https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php. >> But it needs to be ported into Pharo. >> >> 2017-09-11 21:03 GMT+02:00 Alejandro Infante >> <alejandroinfant...@gmail.com>: >> >>> Hi! >>> I would like to explore having support for Unicode characters. I want to >>> help for it. >>> >>> Who is the right person to talk about it? >>> >>> Cheers! >>> Alejandro >>> >> > >
