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Welcome

This is Stefano Chizzolini's personal website.

I'm a software developer of document management solutions and a GNU/Linux enthusiast.

News

  • November 14, 2011: PDF Clown 0.1.1 Beta is released.
    This release adds support to optional/layered contents, text highlighting, metadata streams (XMP), Type1/CFF font files, along with primitive object model and AcroForm fields filling enhancements. Lots of minor improvements have been applied too. Last but not least: ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll dependency has been removed from .NET implementation. See the announcement.
  • March 4, 2011: PDF Clown 0.1.0 Alpha is released.
    This release introduces support to cross-reference-stream-based PDF files (as defined since PDF 1.5 spec) along with page rendering and printing: a specialized tool provides a convenient way to convert PDF pages into images (aka rasterization). Lots of minor improvements have been applied too. Last but not least: the project's base namespace has been changed to org.pdfclown. See the announcement.
  • August 21, 2010: PDF Clown 0.0.8 Alpha is released.
    This release is focused on text extraction support: a specialized tool provides, along with plain-text extraction, advanced functionalities such as full graphic state of extracted text (font, font size, text color, text rendering mode, text position...), text filtering by page area, text grouping and sorting. Lots of minor improvements have been applied too. See the announcement.
  • January 2, 2010: PDF Clown's Blog is online!
    I hope you'll appreciate the new PDF Clown's Blog: it's meant to be a friendly place to meet PDF Clown's users, informing them about its development, suggesting tips & tricks and receiving their comments. Enjoy!