Bug#1004554: ITP: libpdfbox-graphics2d-java -- Java library to embed graphics as vector drawing in a PDF

[Pierre Gruet]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Debian Java team <debian-java at lists.debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel at lists.debian.org, pkg-java-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org

* Package name    : libpdfbox-graphics2d-java
  Version         : 0.34
  Upstream Author : Emmeran Seehuber
* URL             : https://github.com/rototor/pdfbox-graphics2d/
* License         : Apache-2.0
  Programming Lang: Java
  Description     : Java library to embed graphics as vector drawing in a PDF

Using this library one can use any Graphics2D API based SVG / graph /
chart library to embed those graphics as vector drawing in a PDF. In
combination with PDFBox PDFRenderer/PageDrawer one can also "rerender"
PDF pages and change certain aspects (e.g. change the color mapping and
perform an overfill) .

The following features are supported:

* Drawing any shape using draw...() and fill...() methods from
  Graphics2D.
* Drawing images. The default is to always lossless compress them. One
  could plugin one's own Image -> PDImageXObject conversion if one wants
  to encode the images as jpeg.
* All BasicStroke attributes.
* Paint:
   - Color. One can specify one's own color mapping implementation to
     special map the (RGB) colors to PDColor. Beside using CMYK colors
     one can also use spot colors.
   - GradientPaint, LinearGradientPaint and RadialGradientPaint. There
     are some restrictions.
   - TexturePaint.
* Drawing text. By default all text is drawn as vector shapes, so no
  fonts are embedded. RTL languages are supported. It's possible to use
  fonts, but this loses some features (especially RTL support) and one
  must provide the TTF files of the fonts if the default PDF fonts are
  not enough.

The package will be team-maintained in the Debian Java team.