Community PDF Project (was Revenue and the Open Source edition)

[RM]

I would suppose the ideal thing would be both something that allows one 
to render a PDF document,
and extract all or part of an embedded text layer (if one exists in the 
original PDF).

Richmond.

On 4.05.2016 17:22, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Tim Bleiler wrote:
>
> > The Livecode PDF viewer is an example of something that might do
> > well as a separate option.
>
> It might.
>
> It would be helpful if more folks read the specs for the PDF external 
> LiveCode is including with their Business Edition.  It's very 
> specialized, with extensive features for getting and setting 
> selections far beyond the needs of most projects.
>
> What I'm hearing from most Indy and Community devs is that they merely 
> want to render a PDF within LiveCode.
>
> Given the PDFium library available for that, and that LiveCode Builder 
> supports binary APIs such as those in that library, if this is a 
> lucrative opportunity it would seem worth pursuing for those who want it.
>
> The developer could sell it as proprietary, or even dual-license it 
> with a GPL version.
>
> Anyone sufficiently convinced of the business opportunity here to take 
> this on?
>