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PDF files can be opened and all PDF objects are available as Smalltalk objects, which can be manipulated in any way you like. Likewise, any Smalltalk PDF object (net) can be written out as conforming PDF file. | PDF files can be opened and all PDF objects are available as Smalltalk objects, which can be manipulated in any way you like. Likewise, any Smalltalk PDF object (net) can be written out as conforming PDF file. | ||
- | The library implements the {{pdf: | + | The library implements the {{pdf: |
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+ | The syntax | ||
===== The Library ===== | ===== The Library ===== | ||
- | The library is for programmers who need full control over all details of PDFs. | + | The library is for programmers who want full control over all details of PDFs. |
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+ | See the [[releaseNotes|release notes]] for details. | ||
The licence is MIT. | The licence is MIT. | ||
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Included is a UI tool to inspect PDFs: the PDFExplorer (internal version of the [[PDFtalkSnooper]] application). | Included is a UI tool to inspect PDFs: the PDFExplorer (internal version of the [[PDFtalkSnooper]] application). | ||
- | ===== What's new ===== | + | ===== Related projects |
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- | This is version 2.0 of the library (October 2017). See the [[releaseNotes|release notes]] for details. | + | |
- | **Name** The new name is // | + | ==== Libraries ==== |
- | **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 | + | **[[complexvalues|Values]]** A base library for immutable complex |
- | **[[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: " | + | **[[RDF]]** The implementation of the W3C Recommendation |
- | **[[GemstoneFileout|Gemstone Fileout]]** A VisualWorks to Gemstone translation tool. This tool, with project specific code transformation declarations, | + | **[[PostScript]]** Implementation of the PostScript Level 3 language (without graphics or rendering). |
- | Both new projects are open source with MIT licence. | + | **[[CMap]]** Font encodings for Type 0 fonts (large fonts for Japanese, Chinese, Korean...) |
- | ===== Get started ===== | + | ==== Gemstone |
- | The slides {{pdf: | + | **[[PDFtalk4Gemstone|PDFtalk for Gemstone]]** |
- | Load the **{PDFtalk Project}** bundle from the [[storeaccess|Cincom Public Store]] into your [[http:// | + | **[[SmalltalkTransform|Smalltalk Transform Project]]** A translation tool for VisualWorks to generate Smalltalk for other dialects. Project specific code transformation declarations are used to generate a filein for the target dialect. This is the next more general version of the [[GemstoneFileout|Gemstone Fileout]] project. |
- | Try the [[examples|demos and examples]]. | + | The projects above are open source with MIT licence. |
- | Read the [[documentation]]. | + | ==== Tools ==== |
- | To get the latest news and to participate in discussions, | + | **[[PDFtalkSnooper|Snooper]]** Stand-alone UI tool to inspect PDFs. This is the packaged version of the internal tool. |
+ | The tool is free, but not open-sourced. | ||
===== References ===== | ===== References ===== |