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Posted to dev@pdfbox.apache.org by "Tilman Hausherr (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2019/12/25 10:03:00 UTC
[jira] [Commented] (PDFBOX-4721) Move Apache PDFBox from a low-API
model
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4721?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=17003179#comment-17003179 ]
Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-4721:
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We're a small team and we don't give away money and we can't just hire people to get more things done. We're not even keeping up with the many bugs / enhancement issues that are open, as shown by this graphic from the last 300 days. You can use the tool you mentioned or Boxable as it is now.
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> Move Apache PDFBox from a low-API model
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> Key: PDFBOX-4721
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4721
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 2.0.17, 3.0.3 JBIG2
> Reporter: Adrian with an A
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: image-2019-12-25-11-00-48-242.png
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> As of now Apache PDFBox is a low level API project. PDF Box is so mature that it should have, and must have, higher levels of methods and functions that helps the users to create PDFs. Looking around the internet one can find that when people ask for help about PDF Box then it is always the same things, e.g. "How can I create pages dynamically?", "How do I calculate the height and width of a page", "Why does lines not split on end of line?", "All of my texts overwrites themselfs and the pages becomes one page - why?". Having an API where I have to draw like a child of what I want is something we saw in the 'old days', maybe throughout the years 2000 to 2010.
> Look at this repository as a good example: https://github.com/ralfstuckert/pdfbox-layout .
> This man has done what you should / could have done a long time ago. Give him some money and implement (/improve) his code into PDF Box. Surely it can be done. He does not update the repository that often, so grabbing it and / or doing something similar would be great. It have to become more easy to work with PDF BOXs PDFs. I can imagine that companies around the world would flock to PDF Box if it was more userfriendly.
> I hope that you can start with this as soon as possible, please.
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