Ia rhea what you mean by PDF specs? PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT (PDF) SPECIFICATIONS
Technical Specifications Document John Balgenorth On Aug 17, 2015, at 7:37 PM, Monte Goulding <mo...@sweattechnologies.com> wrote: > >> On 18 Aug 2015, at 11:50 am, Ralph DiMola <rdim...@evergreeninfo.net> wrote: >> >> How hard can it be to add pdf support to open-source? >> >> I read the PDF spec and got a headache on the 3 page. I know that PDFium is >> doing the heavy lifting but the PDF spec is nasty. Add bookmarks, PDF fields >> and java into the mix and can get ugly fast. > > Indeed it really depends on how much of the PDF spec you want to support. If > it’s just rendering the PDF to a widget (which is the simplest use case) it > should be quite easy because PDFium will render an image for a page at a > given size which can just be shown in the widget. Not hard at all. Text > selection etc gets a bit more complicated bit overall it will all be much > simpler in a widget than the Windows & OS X external I’m maintaining at the > moment. PDFium BTW is the PDF rendering library from Chromium and an open > source version of FoxIT SDK. > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
