Re: Revise group description?

Sort of my point previously: what a programmer might use for a 
publishing solution is probably considerably different than what 
publishing pros come up with. And there are probably more non-publishing 
professional programmers asked to do publishing than publishing 
professionals. IMO.

Programmatic approaches to creating PDF and Postscript are nothing new 
to me, nor to many programmers tasked with publishing. I may be naive, 
but both formats appear to work well, and if you read and understand the 
specs, and write good programs, that often beats other stuff. Over a 
decade ago I was writing scripts to create PDF, which is relatively 
simple: it's not a very complex format.

Arved

On 12/29/2013 07:11 PM, Jean Kaplansky wrote:
> It occurred to me that I’ve heard about more and more Java-based PDF 
> libraries in the last year. These guys: 
> http://www.idrsolutions.com/java-pdf-library/ had a booth right next 
> to Aptara’s booth at the last O’Reilly TOC conference.
>
> It strikes me that there may be other Java PDF libraries out there, 
> both open source and commercial that this group may be interested in 
> if members are interested in learning about additional tools for 
> creating PDF files (because I certainly don’t see PDF files going away 
> anytime soon. For all my Digital Publishing talk, I’m as big a PDF 
> junky as anyone else out there when it comes to my own collection of 
> reference information).
>
> Should we start a separate list for the various PDF producing Java 
> libraries?
>
> Just wondering.
>
> -Jean (who really must return her attention to EPUBs now, or find 
> herself in hot water with at least one future co-presenter…)
>
>
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