Squeak PDFTalk?

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') ?


tim
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> On 2019-10-01, at 3:19 PM, Ben Coman <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 at 06:06, tim Rowledge <[hidden email]> 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') ?
>
> 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.
>

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 

Huh, never heard of that one that I recall.

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

Good to have options!


tim
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On Tue, 1 Oct 2019, tim Rowledge wrote:

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/