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- | ====== Release Notes for PDFtalk 2.0 ====== | + | ====== Release Notes ====== |
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+ | ===== PDFtalk 2.3 ===== | ||
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+ | ===== PDFtalk 2.0 ===== | ||
This is the release of the second major version of the PDF library in October 2017. | This is the release of the second major version of the PDF library in October 2017. | ||
- | The previous | + | ===== What's new ===== |
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+ | **Typing** The heard of the “PDF engine” is the [[newtyping|typing system]] which allows the assignment of Smalltalk classes to raw PDF objects. The new version has a redesigned type system where PDF types are properly modeled independent from the Smalltalk class hierarchy. This allows to rename classes freely (i.e. adding prefixes) without affecting PDF types. Also, boxing of some simple objects like " | ||
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+ | **[[PDFtalk4Gemstone|PDFtalk for Gemstone]]** The new release was triggered by a contract to port the library to Gemstone (thanks to HTS and Bob Nemec). A talk about this was held at ESUG 2017: " | ||
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+ | **[[GemstoneFileout|Gemstone Fileout]]** A VisualWorks to Gemstone translation tool. This tool, with project specific code transformation declarations, | ||
+ | Both new projects are open source with MIT licence. | ||
===== Changes for users of the library ===== | ===== Changes for users of the library ===== | ||