Christian,

I don't know if my Squeak skills are upto the task, but I am willing to do
what I can. I have a particular interest in geospatial PDF and did some
development in Squeak utilizing USGS SDTS geodata many years ago.

I am self taught and never collaborated on a Smalltalk project before. My
strength is in analysis and design of data oriented applications: find
data, download date, extract interesting data and use the data in
interesting ways.
My hardware is older i.e. Mac, Windows, and Android are not running current
OS but they meet my needs.

I will help where I can,
John-Reed

On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 10:27 AM Christian Haider <mail at christianhaider.de>
wrote:

> Hi Squeakers,
>
>
>
> 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].
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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?
>
>
>
> Happy hacking,
>
>                 Christian
>
>
>
> [1] https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=pdftalknonnamespacefileout
>
> [2]
> https://wiki.pdftalk.de/doku.php?id=portingblog#first_fileout_of_the_full_pdftalk_for_squeak_60
>
>
>
> P.S. I hope that I am writing to the right list – apologies, if this is
> spam for you
>
>

-- 
John-Reed Maffeo
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