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 Included is a UI tool to inspect PDFs: the PDFExplorer (internal version of the [[PDFtalkSnooper]] application).
-===== What's new =====
+===== Get started =====
-This is version 2.0 of the library (October 2017). See the [[releaseNotes|release notes]] for details.
+The slides {{pdf:esug2011_slides_pdf_in_smalltalk.pdf|"PDF in Smalltalk"}} (a talk at [[http://www.esug.org/|ESUG]] 2011), give an overview of what this project is about.
+Load the **{PDFtalk Project}** bundle from the [[storeaccess|Cincom Public Store]] into your [[http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/products/visualworks/|VisualWorks]] image.
-**Name** The new name is //**PDFtalk**//. The first version was called //PDF4Smalltalk//. The namespace changed from ''PDF'' to ''PDFtalk'' and the domain "pdftalk.de" provides a home with a wiki dedicated to the library: [[https://wiki.pdftalk.de|wiki.pdftalk.de]].
+Try the [[examples|demos and examples]].
-**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 "null" and booleans is not necessary anymore. Instead, existing classes are declared as PDF types.
+Read the [[documentation]].
-**[[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: "PDFtalk for Gemstone" (slides are [[https://www.slideshare.net/esug/pdftalk-for-gemstone|here]]).
+To get the latest news and to participate in discussions, subscribe to the [[http://www.freelists.org/list/pdf4st|mailing list]].
-**[[GemstoneFileout|Gemstone Fileout]]** A VisualWorks to Gemstone translation tool. This tool, with project specific code transformation declarations, creates a Gemstone filein. Used to create the Gemstone PDFtalkLibrary from the Values package and PDFtalk bundle.
+===== Related projects =====
-Both new projects are open source with MIT licence.
+==== Libraries ====
-===== Get started =====
-The slides {{pdf:esug2011_slides_pdf_in_smalltalk.pdf|"PDF in Smalltalk"}} (a talk at [[http://www.esug.org/|ESUG]] 2011), give an overview of what this project is about.
+**[[complexvalues|Values]]** A base library for immutable complex objects facilitating functional programming.
-Load the **{PDFtalk Project}** bundle from the [[storeaccess|Cincom Public Store]] into your [[http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/products/visualworks/|VisualWorks]] image.
+**[[RDF]]** The implementation of the W3C Recommendation [[https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-rdf-syntax-grammar-20140225/|RDF 1.1 XML Syntax]].
-Try the [[examples|demos and examples]].
+==== Gemstone ====
-Read the [[documentation]].
+**[[PDFtalk4Gemstone|PDFtalk for Gemstone]]** The port of the library to Gemstone Smalltalk. A talk about this was held at ESUG 2017: "PDFtalk for Gemstone" (slides are [[https://www.slideshare.net/esug/pdftalk-for-gemstone|here]]).
-To get the latest news and to participate in discussions, subscribe to the [[http://www.freelists.org/list/pdf4st|mailing list]].
+**[[GemstoneFileout|Gemstone Fileout]]** A VisualWorks to Gemstone translation tool. This tool, with project specific code transformation declarations, creates a Gemstone filein. Used to create the Gemstone PDFtalkLibrary from the Values package and PDFtalk bundle.
+The projects above are open source with MIT licence.
+==== Tools ====
+**[[PDFtalkSnooper]]** Stand-alone UI tool to inspect PDFs. This is the packaged version of the internal PDFExplorer.
+The tool is free, but not open-sourced.
 ===== References =====