Re: Let PDFLib hear from you regarding Ruby bindings

snacktime
2005-11-12T04:41:17Z

On 11/11/05, Saltman <saltman-459giS/99bMmp8TqCH86vg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> I''m for that. I''ve used the commercial version of PDFLib
in several
> large projects (Perl, PHP) and it has always performed exceptionally
> well. The more products that support Ruby, the happier we''ll all
be I
> think. (Send a note to the folks at ChartDirector
> http://www.advsofteng.com while you''re at it.)
>
> That being said, I''m curious, what feature(s) do you require that
> prevent you from using one of the existing PDF solutions for Ruby like
> pdf-writer? Is it the PDI functionality?
>


I was unable to find a ruby pdf library that could do encryption or set
permissions on a pdf file. I used pdfwriter and then had to do the rest by
calling a java app.

I wonder how much work it would be to wrap pdflib using swig?

Chris