The new version of the Proview PDF Editor for Mac OS X is now available for download. The update is free for existing users - your license key will still work - just download and install from the website.
New features include Visual Crop and the setting of crop and trim boxes on individual pages. It’s also about twice as fast as before.
A new version of our PDF Editor for the Mac will be launched next week. New features include Visual Crop and the setting of crop and trim boxes on individual pages. It’s also about twice as fast as before.
It’s not too late to join the beta program - just sign up with MacDeveloper.net. Proview 1.2 will be a free upgrade for existing users.
I’ve written a version of Ocaml’s Graphics module which outputs PDF directly, using the CamlPDF library - its only dependency. It’s based on the approach of Pierre Weis’ GraphPS program.
It has the same API as Ocaml’s module - just have your build process find the GraphPDF files before it finds the system ones - the vast majority of programs shouldn’t need altering.
Get it here.
I’m pleased to announce the CamlPDF 0.5 release, which includes a couple of new modules (Pdfdate for date manipulation, Pdfannot for annotations and Pdfmarks for bookmarks). Almost every other module has been improved in some way.
Download it here: http://www.coherentpdf.com/ocaml-libraries.html
More importantly, I’ve finally found time to write a short introduction to CamlPDF, which lets you try some basic work within the OCaml top level:
http://www.coherentpdf.com/introduction_to_camlpdf.pdf
There have been some API modifications which are not backward compatible, but the changes to your source are easy to make. This should be the last release with such changes.
There is now a CamlPDF mailing list:
Our new PDF Editor for the mac is out - get it here.
Technical note: Written in OCaml and Objective C with Cocoa.
Thanks to all the beta testers - your license codes will be sent out shortly.
After some unexpectedly intricate work involving encryption, we’re almost ready for the closed Beta Test of our new PDF editor for OS X, written in OCaml.
Anyone wishing to join the test should email us via the form on the front page at http://www.coherentpdf.com/
I’m beginning a closed beta test of our new PDF Editor for Mac OS X - see posts below for details.
If you’d like to be included, please use the contact form on our front page, giving if possible a short explanation of the kinds of things you might do with such a product. Feel free to pass on this invitation to friends who might be interested.
Not very mac-like or slick yet, but the core functionality is almost there. The architecture for error handling and progress-bars between Cocoa and Ocaml is now complete.
Launch sometime later this year.
Here’s a screenshot of an early version of our next product, a PDF editor for Mac OS X:
The architecture is:
The C wrapper will also be used to release a plain C version of our PDF tools to go with the .NET and command line versions, but not until the bugs are ironed out by using the same code to write the OS X product.
It ought to be possible to produce a Windows version of the product using the .NET version of CamlPDF at some point in the future.
Alan Murta’s General Polygon Clipper is the standard way of finding the intersection, union etc. of polygons.
I wrote an Ocaml interface for this many years ago for a dead project, but I’ve only just got around to packaging it up for release. You can get it here.