[Pdfdoclet-devel] PDFDoclet 0.7.0 beta

[Marcel S. <mar...@ya...>]

Hello everybody,

I've made available the new PDFDoclet 0.7.0 beta for
testing. You may download the project tarball here:

http://www.poweredge.ch/schoen/download/pdfdoclet-0.7.0-beta.tar.gz

Just unpack it and run "ant test-pdf" and "ant
example" to check out the results. Or your own tests,
if you have some, of course.

I'd be happy for any feedback, good and bad so I know
if I can release it or if there are any new bugs to be
fixed first.

Changes, as described in the HISTORY file are:

- Made index more compact by printing all page numbers
  of members (methods, classes, fields) with same name

  on the same line (like: doSomething 23, 35, 88).
- Added link to title page in outline
- Fixed problem with doclet hanging if a file (usually
  an image) was not found due to an invalid path.
  Now the doclet just ignores the image in those cases
  and completes the rest of the javadoc.
- Fixed several open bugs (see HISTORY)
 
Furthermore, I did some massive refactorings to split
the code into smaller pieces. In class PDFUtil, I 
removed most "create..." methods which created
customized PDF elements by introducing the new package
"elements". It contains customized subclasses of iText
PDF elements, which is IMHO more OO-like and easier to
maintain. 

Apart from that, other reorganisations were made as
well; a new class "Util" for generic utility-methods
was added, all "..Util" classes are in a new "util"
package, some methods were moved from "PDFUtil" to
"JavadocUtil" (where they actually belonged).

A lot of code has also been factored out of
"PDFDoclet" 
into the new classes "Inherited", "Overview",
"Summary" 
etc. It's still over 1000 lines of code, but I think 
it's already an improvement.

Thanks for your support. Have fun!

Regards,
Marcel Schoen

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