pdftk retired?

[Roberto Ragusa]

On 03/06/2014 12:03 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 03/06/2014 11:31 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> 
> pdftk has a hard dependency on GCJ because it's a C++ program that uses a Java library (iText) through CNI.  I once tried to rewrite the C++ part in Java, but the existing command line parser is quite involved, so I didn't quite get there.
> 
> Switch to pdftk version 2 doesn't change the basic architecture of the program.
> 
> (We really want to get rid of GCJ.)

What a pity that gcj (as a project) has been abandoned.
Really interesting technology, now in some way reinvented
many years later through Dalvik/ART.

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