Re: [pdf-devel] I'm Back at last

[Leonard Rosenthol]

Whatever stream system you use for the main document MUST support random
access (for obvious reasons) - so beware of generic stream mechanisms...

Leonard


On 12/12/07 3:06 PM, "address@hidden" <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> Hey everyone,
> 
> Sorry for my delay but univ got me busy :-(
> 
> So I'm supposed to be developing the error management module from the base
> layer.  Before starting I'd like to ask some (unrelated) questions.
> 
> 1. Can we set a file name convention for sources ?. I thought of something
> like:
> 
>    pdf_<layer-name>_<module-name>.[ch]
> 
>    Or maybe we could make a directory for each layer and just use
>    pdf_<module-name>.[ch], whatever.
> 
> 2. Regarding the stream module on the base layer. If I got it right, the idea
> is
>    to implement streams on top of some buffer, be it a socket, memory, file,
>    etc, (also pdf stream objects are based on them), they are system
>    independent, etc. Now, I guess one use would be to read documents suppose
>    over a socket using a stream with no filters. Could that be a case ?
> 
> 3. For pdf_error I'm considering writing wrappers for those functions
> available
>    on lib/error.c and to write new ones for gnupdf as needed. OTOH, I'm pretty
>    new on the project to know which error types should be added. I guess we
>    should analyse each module on each layer and decide from there, don't you ?
> 
> 
> BTW, jemarch (and all who contributed), you did a very nice work for the
> gnupdf
> Architecture documents. They seriously lack on most of the projects I've been.
> 
> 
> -gerel
> 
> 

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Leonard Rosenthol
PDF Standards Evangelist
Adobe Systems, Inc.