[squeak-dev] How to read PDF files?

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Wed May 27 12:15:19 UTC 2009


On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 05:16:39PM -0700, Daniel Ingalls wrote:
> Is there code available in the Squeak universe for reading .PDF  
> files?  In particular I wish to read a multi-page file produced by a  
> text scanner -- ie probably compressed black-and-white images.

There is an overview of PDF writers (not readers) for Seaside here:
  http://www.seaside.st/documentation/pdfs

The overview points to SPDF, a "low-level, not very complete smalltalk
library" here:
  http://map.squeak.org/package/d8fd5e1a-2bb7-4c99-a77e-f945dfce01eb

I am not aware of any PDF readers, so hopefully someone else can
point to something.

Dave




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