http://coherentpdf.com/blog Ocaml and PDF and suchlike Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:35:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=49 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 ... http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=48 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 ... http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=45 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 ... http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=44 Our new PDF Editor for the mac is out - get it here. Merge, split and rearrange files Edit and manage bookmarks Scale, rotate and crop pages Add text, page numbers and dates and stamp watermarks Edit document metadata Manage PDF Attachments Technical note: Written in OCaml and Objective C with Cocoa. Thanks to all the beta testers ... http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=40 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/ http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=38 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 ... http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=37 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. http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=36 Here's a screenshot of an early version of our next product, a PDF editor for Mac OS X: The architecture is: A plain C wrapper around the higher-level interface to the CamlPDF library (the same interface used by our command line tools) An Objective-C cocoa program using call-backs to Ocaml through the wrapper ... http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=32 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. http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=31