Overview
jPod is our “cleanroom” implementation of the PDF spec.
It is an already mature PDF manipulating and rendering framework, contained in shrink wrapped products like
- EFormServer (commercial)
- CABAReT Stage (free for personal use)
- Sign Live!
- PDF/A Live!
jPod can be compared to other PDF libraries, but we believe it has its strengths…
- reading (also lazy), verified against many of the “real world PDF documents” that slightly deviate from the spec.
- manipulating (COS level, PD level)
- undo and update propagation make it well prepared for interactive applications
- sophisticated consistency checks improve resulting PDF documents
- writing (full and incremental)
- data source abstraction makes it easy to integrate in new architecture
- ContentStream rendering and creation framework
- …
Contained in this release is the complete “foundation”. This includes all components necessary to read, manipulate and write, along with the basic frameworks to build higher level logic.
As described above, jPod is already a full featured component of its own. Based on this powerful framework you may expect more and more other components and tools to evolve.
One of the most interesting inventions based on the new release is jPod Renderer, a complete rendering implementation for AWT and SWT with lot of support for platform specific tasks.
What can be done using this library is best previewed at http://www.cabaret-solutions.com.
We believe that this is one of the best designed PDF packages available and hope we can inspire an active community around this. we are open to any suggestions, so please contact us.