[NTLK] [ANN] PDFConv 0.2.0

From: Hendrik Lipka (hendrik.lipka_at_gmx.de)
Date: Sun May 25 2003 - 13:35:37 PDT


Hello NewtonTalk,

I'm pleased to announce PDFConv v0.2.0. The waiting has been long, but
moving to my new home has been my top priority in the last weeks...

The highlights:
- documentation / user guide now also as PDF
- command line handling has changed again
- some bugfixes
- added native launcher for Windows

I will gladly accept patches, new ideas and bug reports. Be aware that
I'm not able to test under Mac, so testers for this platform are
welcomed.
Maybe somebody can create a native launcher for the Mac, as I did with
Win?

Have fun,

hli
==============================================
Here the full change list:
- documentation now also as PDF
- should now exit cleanly under OS X (added System.exit())
- jcmdline has been patched to work under JDK 1.3.x
- added LaunchAnywhere for Win - you can just use pdfconv.exe
- command line params are now freed from new lines (and spaces as well)
- changed command line handling (again). See userguide.
  - basename is now optional (and an option). If not given, it is calculated
    from the PDF file name
  - multiple PDf files can be given to the command line. This should enable
    drag-to-the-startscript
  - if no basename is given, each PDf file gets its own output files
  - if basename is given, all PDF files gets combined into single target
  - it can now be specified which files are generated
- number in output files are now padded with zeroes (3 digits)
- if no images are created, the PDF pages are not processed
- now using a template engine for writing output files (htmltemplate 0.92,
  compatible with the Perl module HTML:Template)
- BMP images are now saved in B&W, otherwise the NTK creates books with black
  pages :(
- added the 2 command line switches "-verbose" and "-debug"
- "writeBook" now writes a BookMaker source file
- added command line switch "writeNTK" to write NTK book source file

- internal refactoring
  - added Converter class for conversion, This class can be called from a GUI.
    PDFConv itself does now only command line parsing
  - Converter can use multiple document and image backends. So it is now
    possible to create HTML and a book simultaneously
  - introduced packages for cleaner structure
  - introduced config objects for holding and passing parameters
  - image scaling is now its own class
- now using jPedal 1.88
- now using HTMLTemplate 0.92 as template engine
- now using Java Imaging Util 0.10.0 for image conversion and BMP saving

  --
Best regards,
 Hendrik mailto:hendrik.lipka_at_gmx.de

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