This discussion happened on our internal Java mailing list.
Dan: "What libraries do people use for generating PDFs from java?"
Tim: "I used iText. It works pretty well."
Fernando: "+1 for iText."
Steve: "Ditto"
Joseph: "we are using itext..."
Mike: "Calendar uses iText..."
Isaac: "+1 for iText on (Google Spreadsheets)"
Me: "Did six Googlers just AGREE on something in a company-wide mailing list thread?? Did that really just happen?? My God, there really is a first time for everything."
Mike: "I disagree. This assumes that time runs in a single direction. If it doesn't, then if an event occurs more than once then the first time could be called the last time and vice versa so neither can be reliably called a first time."
Me: "I've now gained a new appreciation for the complexity of the problems you folks on the Calendar team have to contend with. Clearly we're moving beyond i18n to i19n: interuniversalization!"
Mike: "Yep. We have an implemention of scheduling in multiple time dimensions ready to go and Jeff allocated a pocket universe for testing but production doesn't want to set up a datacenter there."
Kathrin: "Can't you test in a parallel universe where production has agreed to set up your datacenter?"
Well, I laughed my ass off.
Friday, November 9, 2007
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Clearly you all think the same way, so Google need only retain 1 of you. ;)
Sigh, does IDEA do that to everyone? I used emacs for a week in protest recently.
The engineers who use Eclipse don't do that; they're too busy working on their project. Snap!
And text extraction? That's what i really want.
Hey, 'Fernando' looks like a brazilian name. Who's this guy?
Thank you for using iText! (read Bruno Lowagie's Online Gazette)
@paulo: you can use iText to extract the content stream of a page and then parse the PDF syntax to extract text, but that's not for the faint of heart.
In general we advise using PdfBox, even on our own iText mailing list and in the iText book. If you don't mind paying for such a tool, there's also PdfLib's Text Extraction Toolkit.
+1 for Eclipse -- it doesn't hang on me like IDEA used to do, so I don't have down time for discussions about parallel universes. Funny, nonetheless.
I love the last bit. This sounds like the kind of conversation I'd have if I knew other people who'd get it.
PS: You seem to have a bit of a spam problem. CAPTCHA time? What's with all the WoW stuff, anyway?
Why was there no follow on bankruptcy then? The bailout of AIG FP went to (wow power leveling) hedge funds that bound credit swaps on Lehman failing or others betting on rating (wow power leveling) declines. AIG has drained over 100 billion from the government. Which had to go to (wow power leveling) those who bet on failures and downgrades. Many of whom (power leveling)were hedge funds. I-banks that had offsetting swaps needed the money from the AIG bailout or they would have been caught. Its an (wow powerleveling) insiders game and it takes just a little bit too much time for most people to think (wow gold) through where the AIG 100 billion bailout money went to, hedge funds and players, many of whom hire from the top ranks of DOJ, Fed, Treasury, etc. ZHANG XIAO CHEN
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