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 ====== PDFtalk ====== ====== PDFtalk ======
  
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 The library is for programmers who want 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).
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-===== What's new ===== 
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-This is version 2.0 of the library (October 2017). See the [[releaseNotes|release notes]] for details. 
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-**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]]. 
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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 "null" and booleans is not necessary anymore. Instead, existing classes are declared as PDF types. 
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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: "PDFtalk for Gemstone" (slides are [[https://www.slideshare.net/esug/pdftalk-for-gemstone|here]]). 
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-**[[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. 
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-Both new projects are open source with MIT licence. 
-===== Get started ===== 
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-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. 
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-Load the **{PDFtalk Project}** bundle from the [[storeaccess|Cincom Public Store]] into your [[http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/products/visualworks/|VisualWorks]] image. 
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-Try the [[examples|demos and examples]]. 
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-Read the [[documentation]]. 
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-To get the latest news and to participate in discussions, subscribe to the [[http://www.freelists.org/list/pdf4st|mailing list]]. 
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 ===== References ===== ===== References =====
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