Add a comment September 28th, 2011 by Albert
The report containing my experience collaborating with the GNU PDF project is available for download here (look for the link named 73459.pdf). It contains useful information for newcomers, as well as a complete log of developments, experiences and interactions performed during this period. Presentation slides (in catalan!) are available here. The Final Degree Project is [...]
3 Comments May 17th, 2011 by Albert
The PDF file format, far from being a unique language definition, gathers an extensive family of sublanguages (which we friendly call dialects) and specifications. These specifications make the format richer, and allow a better fitting between the language restrictions and requirements of real scenarios. On the other hand, the library has to consider all these [...]
2 Comments May 4th, 2011 by Albert
In its very first 5 months of life, Portable Document Features has reached 1,000 visitors. Most of you have been coming from gnupdf.org or planet.gnu.org, but some others have reached the blog googling around about how to install the GNU PDF Library on your systems, how to start up with hacking the lib or just [...]
3 Comments March 9th, 2011 by Albert
The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements (Brian Kernighan) The GNU PDF project takes testing very seriously. Despite this, while programming functionalities that rely on uderlying modules, a returning value reporting if something went wrong in a call has a very high value. So, in this post [...]
3 Comments November 24th, 2010 by Albert
All documentation in GNU PDF, as in many other free software projects, is written using texinfo. Texinfo is a documentation format by Richard Stallman and Bob Chassell, which aims to integrate all the project documentation in a unique source, and then produce any desired output document format in an automatic and transparent way. As described [...]
4 Comments November 3rd, 2010 by Albert
In this short session we’ll get running a minimal piece of C code which uses types and functions of the types module, in the base layer of the GNU PDF library. For more information about the GNU PDF library architecture, please go here. First of all, create a directory to store these little hacking things: [...]
1 Comment October 31st, 2010 by Albert
First of all, this post is a clarification of the official GNU PDF library newcomers guide, found here, and a more explicit explanation steps than those found in the INSTALL and README files of the source trunk. There is no intention here to replace, but to better explain the contents of these sources, and I [...]
Add a comment October 25th, 2010 by Albert
As some may know, this is the final year of my degree in Facultat d’Informàtica de Barcelona (FIB, UPC). If everything goes as it should (and, believe me, it will), someday in the end of June 2011 I will be a Computer Engineer, Computer Scientist, Computer Science Engineer or put_here_your_favourite_computing_degree_title. As some others (I guess [...]