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[jira] [Updated] (PDFBOX-2530) Improve PDFDebugger
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2530?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Tilman Hausherr updated PDFBOX-2530:
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Description:
(This is an idea for [GSOC2015|https://www.google-melange.com/]. But if you want to submit some improvements to the code outside of GSOC2015 now, this is fine. We can always come up with other project ideas for GSOC2015)
Our command line utility PDFDebugger (part of the command line pdfbox-app get it [here|https://pdfbox.apache.org/downloads.html], read description [here|https://pdfbox.apache.org/commandline/]) needs some improvements:
- hex view
- view of non printable characters
- saving streams
- binary copy & paste
- show images that are streams
- show PDIndexed gradient
- show PDSeparation color
- show PDDeviceN colors
- edit fields and streams
- save altered PDF
- color mark of PDF operators
To see a product with a similar purpose that is better than PDFDebugger, watch [this video|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-QcU9B4qMc].
I'm not asking to implement a clone of that product (I don't use it, all I know is that video), but we really need something that makes PDF debugging easier. As an example of how the current PDFDebugger prevented me from finding a bug quickly, see PDFBOX-2401 and search for "PDFDebugger".
Mentor: Tilman Hausherr (European timezone, languages: german, english, french)
was:
(This is an idea for [GSOC2015|https://www.google-melange.com/]. But if you want to submit some improvements to the code outside of GSOC2015 now, this is fine. We can always come up for other ideas for GSOC2015)
Our command line utility PDFDebugger (part of the command line pdfbox-app get it [here|https://pdfbox.apache.org/downloads.html], read description [here|https://pdfbox.apache.org/commandline/] ) needs some improvements:
- hex view
- view of non printable characters
- saving streams
- binary copy & paste
- show images that are streams
- show PDIndexed gradient
- show PDSeparation color
- show PDDeviceN colors
- edit fields and streams
- save altered PDF
- color mark of PDF operators
To see a product with a similar purpose that is better than PDFDebugger, watch [this video|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-QcU9B4qMc].
I'm not asking to implement a clone of that product (I don't use it, all I know is that video), but we really need something that makes PDF debugging easier. As an example of how the current PDFDebugger prevented me from finding a bug quickly, see PDFBOX-2401 and search for "PDFDebugger".
Mentor: Tilman Hausherr (European timezone, languages: german, english, french)
> Improve PDFDebugger
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>
> Key: PDFBOX-2530
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2530
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 1.8.8, 2.0.0
> Reporter: Tilman Hausherr
> Labels: gsoc2015
>
> (This is an idea for [GSOC2015|https://www.google-melange.com/]. But if you want to submit some improvements to the code outside of GSOC2015 now, this is fine. We can always come up with other project ideas for GSOC2015)
> Our command line utility PDFDebugger (part of the command line pdfbox-app get it [here|https://pdfbox.apache.org/downloads.html], read description [here|https://pdfbox.apache.org/commandline/]) needs some improvements:
> - hex view
> - view of non printable characters
> - saving streams
> - binary copy & paste
> - show images that are streams
> - show PDIndexed gradient
> - show PDSeparation color
> - show PDDeviceN colors
> - edit fields and streams
> - save altered PDF
> - color mark of PDF operators
> To see a product with a similar purpose that is better than PDFDebugger, watch [this video|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-QcU9B4qMc].
> I'm not asking to implement a clone of that product (I don't use it, all I know is that video), but we really need something that makes PDF debugging easier. As an example of how the current PDFDebugger prevented me from finding a bug quickly, see PDFBOX-2401 and search for "PDFDebugger".
> Mentor: Tilman Hausherr (European timezone, languages: german, english, french)
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