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Apache PDFBox Hits 2.0 (sdtimes.com)

Posted by timothy on from the file-formats-rule-the-world dept.

mmoorebz writes: After three years of development and with over 150 contributors to the code, Apache PDFBox 2.0 has been released. With this release comes enhancements and improvements. The Apache PDFBox library is an open-source Java tool for working with PDF documents. The project allows creation and manipulation of PDF documents, and the ability to extract content from them. Support for forms in open-source PDF viewers is currently disappointing, and I hope this heralds improvement on that front.

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  1. Java by manu0601 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Support for forms in open-source PDF viewers is currently disappointing,

    And one's hope is that yet another Java bloatware will fix that?

    1. Re:Java by ArmoredDragon · · Score: -1, Troll

      And one's hope is that yet another Java bloatware will fix that?

      What's got me scratching my head is that we've got a file format commonly used as a vector for malware running on top of a runtime also commonly used as a vector for malware.

  2. Wrong by Vlijmen+Fileer · · Score: -1, Troll

    What is wrong with people still writing stuff, even starting to write new stuff in Java?
    Java sucks majestically; literally everything written in it is ugly, slow and a memory hog.
    It has done so since its inception. Amendments were made, but the core of the problems has never been solved.

  3. Excellent! by Somebody+Is+Using+My · · Score: -1, Troll

    An app that combines the the thoughtful security practices of Java and Adobe into one convenient package. What could possibly go wrong? ;-)