[cl-pdf-devel] Representation of basic PDF objects

[Marc Battyani]

"Arthur Lemmens" <alemmens at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Marc Battyani wrote:
>
> > So I would very much prefer that we work on new functionnalities and
> > features
>
> OK, I've finished the parser. To test it, I've written a COPY-DOCUMENT
> function that parses a document, renumbers all indirect objects (I'm
> going to have to do that for the merging anyway), and writes out the
> result.

Great!

> I tested it on all the PDF files on my hard drive (that turned out to
> be 175 files, 130 MB). I opened all generated copies with Acrobat
> Reader 5.0 (on Windows XP). As far as I can see, Acrobat Reader has
> no problems with any of them (except for the files that are encrypted,
> but that's only to be expected).

Good.

> That's the good part. The bad part is that I haven't integrated this
> in any way with CL-PDF (in fact, it works independently of CL-PDF at
> the moment). I just copied the stuff I needed from PDF.LISP and
> modified it where necessary.

Bad!

> Moreover, there's not much left from
> your original parser ;-)

Good, as I told you it was a rather crude hack. But it was compatible with
cl-pdf ;-)

> I'm willing to look into integrating this with CL-PDF, but I won't
> have any time for this in the next two weeks (I'm leaving for France
> in a couple of days and have a deadline before that).

OK

> I've attached the code. You can do with it whatever you want.

Good, I will have a look at this.

Marc