[MAGNOLIA-4469] Upgrade to PDFBox 1.7.0? Created: 05/Jul/12  Updated: 03/Dec/13  Resolved: 03/Dec/13

Status: Closed
Project: Magnolia
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: 4.5.3
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Type: Improvement Priority: Minor
Reporter: Edgar Vonk Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Won't Fix Votes: 1
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 Description   

It is possible to upgrade Magnolia 4.5.x to the latest version of PDFBox? I noticed that Magnolia 4.5.3 includes PDFBox 1.4.0 while the latest PDFBox is version 1.7.0. Of course I could try this myself but maybe you guys know better if this was a conscious decision on your part to include 1.4.0 instead?

PS: I do not have any concrete issues with PDFBox at the moment but I do now that in the past (I am talking about Magnolia 3.6.x) we had issues with PDFBox regarding the indexing of PDFs and had to upgrade PDFBox ourselves in order to solve it. And if I look at the PDFBox release notes they fix quite a few bugs in every release.



 Comments   
Comment by Edgar Vonk [ 26/Aug/13 ]

Hi Magnolia,

Are there any updates on this? The latest PDFBox is now 1.8.2 but Magnolia 4.5 still comes with PDFBox 1.4.0. It is a shame that we cannot use the latest PDFBox in Magnolia 4.5 (at least not in a default installation) and that we are missing out on all the PDFBox bugfixes since 1.4.0.

I did notice that Magnolia 5.0.2 ships with PDFBox 1.8.1 which is nice.

cheers,

Edgar

Comment by Tobias Mattsson [ 03/Dec/13 ]

We're using PDFBox transitively via Apache Tika which is used by Jackrabbit for document indexing. Upgrading PDFBox means we would have to make sure that both Tika and Jackrabbit works with a newer version of PDFBox. There would have to be a strong benefit for us to undertake that. Even in such case we would probably considerupgrading Jackrabbit instead. As you've stated newer versions of Jackrabbit uses PDFBox 1.8.

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