Ahh.. I have been away from this project for some time, my real job has been very busy - however I find myself motivated to move it along a little bit - expect to see some progress coming up. Unfortunatly my opinion is that the current code base suffers from a lot of features having been added to an unstable base, and I intend to do a lot of remeadial work. This may require a rebuild of some of the core functionality, but the result should be worth it. I intend to fix problems with fonts, so that all character spacing are calculated correctly. Tof adjust the way that fonts can be changed to allow mid-line font and size changes, and to modularize the presentation a lot more so that such things as images in tables etc. are possible. I apologise to all those that have written to me over the last years and have got no reply - sometimes I have simply not had time, or more often they go unnoticed amongst the mountains of spam mail that the publically knowm email addresses and those associated with the mailing list generate - a tide which contributed to my lack of time spent on this project. I am currently working on a script to dissasemble ttf font files, and once it is working I'll present it here and eventually it will be intergrated into the new system (which I hope to make using php5 rather than 4). I expect the class interfaces will be similar, but different in places, if I can make it backwards compatible without comprimising the features of the new system then I will.

Cheers
Wayne.

I have just uploaded the latest bug release fix, (version 009e), which also contains a donated ezImage function (the downloads links will take you to the new function).

As you can see from the frequency of these messages my time on this project is sporadic, and I often get so many emails that if I try to answer them all then I end up with no time to spend on the project itself.. I have been in bug-fix only mode for a while, and am almost out of outstanding issues. To cut down my emails I would encourage users to seek help on the sourceforge forums, note that I do monitor them myself and will chip in with my 10c worth when it is worthwhile.

I am also going to try and make the documentation more readable (perhaps an html version) as from some of the emails that I get it is obviously too hard to find things in the manual.

I have also just made a new forum for users to share code extensions, as I think I have been an inhibiting factor in this loop for a while.

My apologies to all that have sent me mail, since getting back from holiday I have been too busy on other projects to spend time on this one (although it is my favourite, domestic concerns leave it at the bottom of the pile). There is quite a backlog of emails, which I will process on a first in first served basis, hopefully over the next few weeks.

Please note that I will be on christmas (and summer) holidays from 21st december through to 4th january, your emails will be ignored during that time not due to rudeness but simply because nobody is home.

yet another minor re-release, main bug-fix is for when applying encryption to documents of many pages in length - they would be blank when there were more than 256 objects in the document. Current version is now 009c, the download links should point to that one.

a minor re-release to remove a warning which would appear under certain circumstances. I have also started upgrading the in-code documentation. Current version is now 009b, the download links should point to that one.

Well it is amazing how time flies, I have been promising the full release of 009 for some time, but the list of things that I had to do to get it out there just seemed to be getting longer and longer. Even now I have been unable to add everything that I have promised people that I have done, and I have even not managed to integrate some really cool extensions that have been sent to me.

However I have decided to release anyway, I stopped adding new features, and got the documentation up to date (though it may not be all that readable in places). The download links above should allow you to grab the latest and greatest - fear not that I am still working on this occasioinaly, though as the project gets bigger the incremental improvements seem less and less - though the main slow up this year has been my limited free time - unfortunatly something that is not likely to change in the near future.

I thank those of you that have written in with constructive comments, and thoughts (not just demands for features). I have tried to reply to almost all the emails that I get (rude feature demands are now pretty much being ignored), if I have forgotten to write back to you, then please accept my apologies, sometimes some emails slip through the cracks.
So check out the doco for the new features - there are some cool ones, my favourite is the transaction support, which allows you to try stuff out, then rewind to a previous point and try again.

A number of the features of this class have been developed for use within the company that I work for on a regular basis - they have been very kind in allowing me to release all of this into the public domain, so if you are reading this and are looking for an excellent enterprise grade search for your company, please consider checking out sli-systems...

http://www.sli-systems.com/

pdfClasses_009_pre.zip.
Note that this zip file only includes the two class files.

Note: June 2006, This mailing list has become so clogged with spam that it is unusable - I am removing this address and will be coming up with a new system the next time there is something to announce, which hopefully will be the new TTF class.