[squeak-dev] Squeak PDFTalk?

Levente Uzonyi leves at caesar.elte.hu
Tue Oct 1 22:44:03 UTC 2019


On Tue, 1 Oct 2019, tim Rowledge wrote:

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>> On 2019-10-01, at 3:19 PM, Ben Coman <btc at openinworld.com> wrote:
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>> 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') ?
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>> 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.
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> Pity - it's pretty good in VW. Amazingly fast.
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>> Artefact is in active use...
>> https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/EnterprisePharoBook/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/book-result/Artefact/Artefact.html 
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> Huh, never heard of that one that I recall.

I've ported it to Squeak a few years ago[1]. The way I remember, it was 
okay up until you needed something fancy (e.g. to render non-ascii characters).

Levente
[1] http://leves.web.elte.hu/squeak/Artefact/

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>> I had a POC dabble at a FFI interface to Chrome's engine PDFium...
>> https://blog.openinworld.com/2017/11/pharo-pdf-part-1/ 
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> Good to have options!
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> tim
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