On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 6:03 PM, K K Subbu <kksubbu.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday 13 November 2017 09:50 AM, Ben Coman wrote:
I've managed to build PDFium into a shared library on Ubuntu 16.04. (I'll announce a blog post on this later.) Now I'm considering the best bitmap format to bring the rendered page back into Pharo.
Have you considered importing PDFs as a sequence of compressed PNGs into Pharo? If you not interested in twiddling pixels in the imported PDFs, perhaps PNG may be sufficient. They take up lesser space and easier to move around or re-export.
Regards .. Subbu
Yes, I've certainly considered it. Pragmatically, in my electrical career I deal with a lot of single page A3 PDF scans of schematic drawings, so pre-converting to a bitmap format outside of Pharo wouldn't lose much. But I've wanted PDF rendering inside Pharo for *years* and finally got a sniff of a solid possibility - so I'm chasing it down. It might not pan out like I imagine, but "Live programming PDF documents" seems like a catchy meme that the broader community may find intriguing. Really, I'm just curious about what might be possible and can only discover that by walking the way. cheers -ben