[squeak-dev] Squeak PDFTalk?
tim Rowledge
tim at rowledge.org
Tue Oct 1 22:34:30 UTC 2019
> On 2019-10-01, at 3:19 PM, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 06:06, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> Has anyone done, considered, noticed, used or otherwise seen any mention oaf a port of Christian Haider's PDFTalk (also known by at least one other name over the years - PDF4Smalltalk - and I think also 'PDF Development') ?
>
> I've been aware of it for a few years. The main platform is VisualWorks, and it has one port to Gemstone.
> Christian expressed an interest in porting to Pharo, but I guess its a busy life and hasn't happened yet.
> Search forum.world.st for history.
>
Pity - it's pretty good in VW. Amazingly fast.
>
> Artefact is in active use...
> https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/EnterprisePharoBook/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/book-result/Artefact/Artefact.html
Huh, never heard of that one that I recall.
>
> I had a POC dabble at a FFI interface to Chrome's engine PDFium...
> https://blog.openinworld.com/2017/11/pharo-pdf-part-1/
Good to have options!
tim
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