[jira] [Closed] (PDFBOX-2691) PageDrawer should not be *final*

["Tilman Hausherr (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2691?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Tilman Hausherr closed PDFBOX-2691.
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    Resolution: Duplicate

I am closing this as duplicate of PDFBOX-2692 because it is basically the same, but his explanation is more detailed. But I am adding you as a watcher there and will also copy your text there.

> PageDrawer should not be *final*
> --------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-2691
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2691
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Wish
>          Components: Rendering
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
>            Reporter: Daniel Wilson
>
> A change from PDFBox 1.8.8 and earlier makes PageDrawer a final class -- prohibiting classes from inheriting it.
> This will prevent me from upgrading to version 2.0.0 because I use PDFBox to render PDF's in .Net.  That requires that a few methods be overridden to use .Net drawing objects and libraries rather than Java objects and libraries.  In order to override those methods, I define a class thus:
> {code}
> namespace PDFBox_Net
> {
>     public class PageDrawer_Net : org.apache.pdfbox.pdfviewer.PageDrawer
>     { 
>  /* all kinds of cool C# code
> ...
> */
>     }
> }
> {code}
> If PDFBox 2.0 PageDrawer remains final, I will need to choose between staying on the 1.8.x branch and forking the code.



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