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ANN: PDF-API2 goes unmaintained

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hi!

Most of you might have found that i have been relatively silent this
past 2 years and i have finally brought myself to the point that i
have to leave PDF::API2 unmaintained.

It has been 10 years, 3 months and 6 days since i started coding perl
for the purpose of PDF creation.

First i started with an alternative xs-wrapper around pdflib, but soon
realized that it left much to be desired and started Text::PDF::API.

The latest major iteration of PDF::API2 (0.40) was written 47 months
ago in just under 2 weeks, but even that could not solve THE major
problems in the areas of "memory" and "modification".

For the past two years i have myself almost literally ripped apart
between work, family, hobbies and my opensource projects so this had
to stop somewhere.

since pdf-api2 cvs is hosted on SF, it will be available for years to
come with releases hosted on PAUSE and available via CPAN, but i would
like to see some company devoted to FLOSS to takeover development/
maintainance.

any suggestions ?


cheers,

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fredo
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Hello all! I've tried using finishobjects and the -file object creation to minimize memory requirements but I only get the file to be written to disk as it's... 		paolo_asioli Offline Send Email Nov 24, 2008
12:06 pm

... That's because you keep adding stuff to $pdf. Because of the structure of PDF, you can't create a file for it until you know all the parts. The file can...
Mr. Shawn H. Corey
shawnhcorey Offline Send Email 		Nov 24, 2008
1:13 pm

Very strange... I've found old posts from Fredo saying that memory usage could be reduced by setting the file name in the object creation and using...
paolo_asioli Offline Send Email Nov 24, 2008
2:44 pm

... Some memory gets released, that used by temporary objects, but the PDF steadily grows. If you could divide your document into sections and have one PDF for...
Mr. Shawn H. Corey
shawnhcorey Offline Send Email 		Nov 24, 2008
9:08 pm

... I'm no PDF expert, but fro what I've read of the specs only global objets and something to build the xref table at the end of the file should be kept in...
paolo_asioli Offline Send Email Nov 25, 2008
8:08 am

... I'm sorry if I say obvious things - but are you sure the objects written to file are no longer referenced after calling finishobjects on them? Regards, ...
Bruno
brauner_rc Offline Send Email 		Nov 25, 2008
9:58 am

... I don't think that it writes to the file until you do a saveas() or a save() which calls saveas(). -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn The...
Mr. Shawn H. Corey
shawnhcorey Offline Send Email 		Nov 25, 2008
1:48 pm

... No, of this I'm pretty sure, the objects get written to the page as soon as finishobjects is called. Fredo, are you out there ? I think we need your...
paolo_asioli Offline Send Email Nov 26, 2008
9:06 am

... Hash: SHA256 ... yes, i'm still out here. ahm, finishobjects is actually a hack to try to force object output onto the Text::PDF modules. under most...
Alfred Reibenschuh
alfredreiben... Offline Send Email 		Nov 28, 2008
11:30 pm

Than you for the info. I need to study the library a bit more (but it's really a huge work and I've never gotten around to read and understand enough of it). ...
paolo_asioli Offline Send Email Dec 2, 2008
9:55 am

... Hash: SHA256 hi! Most of you might have found that i have been relatively silent this past 2 years and i have finally brought myself to the point that i ...
Alfred Reibenschuh
alfredreiben... Offline Send Email 		Nov 29, 2008
12:05 am

... Hi Fredo, I'd like to thank you for PDF::API2. I could not have accomplished some difficult tasks without it. I'd also like to thank you for your ...
jeffchimene Offline Send Email Nov 29, 2008
3:53 pm

Hi, Fredo. I dont' have yet any suggestions, but I'd like to thank you for your great work. Some important part of my professional life owns a lot to you. I'd...
paolo_asioli Offline Send Email Dec 2, 2008
9:53 am

... Before anything else, I'll also join the number of people thanking you for your hard work and for the great amount of planning, knowledge and sweat that...
Gunnar Wolf
gunnarcito Offline Send Email 		Dec 2, 2008
7:21 pm
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