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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Hi Squeakers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>as some of you know, there is a project on the way for porting the PDFtalk library from VisualWorks to Squeak and other non-namespaced Smalltalks [1]. Now I can report a first significant achievement: the new version of the transformation tool was used successfully to produce the first fileOut of the full PDF library including tests [2].<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Some simple massaging was needed, but now the fileOut should load into Squeak 6.0 without errors. The file is about 6 MB in size and takes around 8 minutes to load on my machine. There are lots of load warnings in the Transcript and many tests have errors, but all code loads and can be browsed and examined.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>The tool automatically rewrites namespaced names with prefixed globally unique names. This seems to work well and automates away much of the usual porting work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Now I am looking for a Squeaker with an interest in PDF and/or the transformation tool and some time at hand to pair up for some coding. This is an exiting project… Heads up – who wants to be part of this?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>Happy hacking,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA> Christian<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>[1] <a href="https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=pdftalknonnamespacefileout">https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=pdftalknonnamespacefileout</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>[2] <a href="https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=portingblog#first_fileout_of_the_full_pdftalk_for_squeak_60">https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=portingblog#first_fileout_of_the_full_pdftalk_for_squeak_60</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-CA>P.S. I hope that I am writing to the right list – apologies, if this is spam for you<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>