Re: [Pharo-project] Fwd: About SPDF
I have a Smalltalk only (with help of zlib) implementation of PDF (1.7) in VisualWorks. I'd love to have a port for Pharo but not the time to do it... I thought of releasing it as open source. Ideas? Need? Cheers, Christian
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [mailto:pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] Im Auftrag von Torsten Bergmann Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. August 2010 08:31 An: pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Betreff: [Pharo-project] Fwd: About SPDF
Hehe, too much legal terms to me.....What we could do? Can modify, create a new package, etc?
The license of SPDF was not open enough for me in the past - thats why I created the binding to the Haru PDF Library:
http://www.squeaksource.com/HPDF.html http://libharu.sourceforge.net
This requires FFI and an external shared library.
If you want to have a Smalltalk only solution I think you have to digg in the PDF spec and write an own. Assumed you have lots of time to spend on bits and bytes and writing nice unit tests for PDF streams.
Similar to iText for Java, this allows you change the license and block your government later ;), see the story of Bruno Lowagie [1]
There are also other PDF alternatives beside HPDF and SPDF (see [2])
Bye Torsten
[1] http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/20/open-source-developer-intends -to-block-belgian-government-from-using-his-technology-over-ta x-dispute/ [2] http://www.seaside.st/documentation/pdfs
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El sáb, 28-08-2010 a las 18:42 +0200, Christian Haider escribió:
I have a Smalltalk only (with help of zlib) implementation of PDF (1.7) in VisualWorks.
I'd love to have a port for Pharo but not the time to do it...
I thought of releasing it as open source.
Please do it, and with MIT license would be perfect because it will avoid a lot of problems in the future. Either publish it as a file out in your page or in a mail, or create a project in squeaksource with read or read/write access for everyone and someone will jump and will work out the porting to pharo. The main thing is to let the code out as MIT and then everything will be easy. Thanks
Ideas? Need?
Cheers, Christian
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr [mailto:pharo-project-bounces@lists.gforge.inria.fr] Im Auftrag von Torsten Bergmann Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. August 2010 08:31 An: pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr Betreff: [Pharo-project] Fwd: About SPDF
Hehe, too much legal terms to me.....What we could do? Can modify, create a new package, etc?
The license of SPDF was not open enough for me in the past - thats why I created the binding to the Haru PDF Library:
http://www.squeaksource.com/HPDF.html http://libharu.sourceforge.net
This requires FFI and an external shared library.
If you want to have a Smalltalk only solution I think you have to digg in the PDF spec and write an own. Assumed you have lots of time to spend on bits and bytes and writing nice unit tests for PDF streams.
Similar to iText for Java, this allows you change the license and block your government later ;), see the story of Bruno Lowagie [1]
There are also other PDF alternatives beside HPDF and SPDF (see [2])
Bye Torsten
[1] http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/20/open-source-developer-intends -to-block-belgian-government-from-using-his-technology-over-ta x-dispute/ [2] http://www.seaside.st/documentation/pdfs
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