Development : : Polybios 1.0 released
Posted By: softwarefailure. on 2018/5/13 19:26:37
Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are proud to present a massive new plugin release for Hollywood: Polybios - Making History in PDF. This plugin can be used to create and view PDF documents from Hollywood scripts and will thus make all PDF dreams come true for Hollywood users. Polybios has been five years in the making and is now finally ready for release exclusively for Hollywood 7.1.

Here are just some of Polybios' impressive features:
  • over 200 functions for creating and viewing PDF documents
  • support for all graphics primitives
  • full Unicode support
  • fonts can be embedded inside PDF documents
  • images and Hollywood brushes can be embedded inside PDF documents
  • password-protected PDFs can be opened and created
  • support for PDF encryption and compression
  • files can be attached to PDF documents
  • annotations can be added to PDF documents
  • support for RGB, CMYK and gray color spaces
  • transition effects can be embedded inside PDF documents
  • hypertext links can be embedded inside PDF documents
  • table of contents generation is supported
  • inbuilt PDF viewer is based on the famous fast and powerful PDF engine used in a very popular browser by a very well-known American Internet company and is thus very compatible and complete
  • PDF pages can be exported as Hollywood brushes
  • PDF pages can be accessed as vector brushes allowing for lossless scaling, rotation, and transformation
  • Polybios comes with over 150 pages of documentation to get you started quickly over 25 ready-to-run examples are included in the Polybios distribution
And the best of all: Polybios is provided free of charge for all existing Hollywood users. Thus, please consider buying Hollywood to show your support for our massive development efforts.

The plugin is now available for download from the official Hollywood portal. Thanks to Hollywood's cross-platform plugin system versions for AmigaOS3 (m68k, m881), AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, WarpOS, AROS (x86), Linux (ppc, arm, x86, x64), Mac OS (ppc, x86, x64), Windows (x86, x64) and Android (arm, arm64) are provided.

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  • Andreas_Wolf
    Joined: 2003/5/22
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    > inbuilt PDF viewer is based on the famous fast and
    > powerful PDF engine used in a very popular browser
    > by a very well-known American Internet company

    Why so secretive instead of naming it bluntly?
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    r-tea
    Joined: 2005/3/27
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    Maybe it's because it makes a little mysterious vibe around Polybios ;-)
    Mac mini G4@1,5GHz silent upgrade + Xerox Phaser 3140 + EPSON Perfection 1240U
    Commodore C64C + 2 x 1541II + Datasette + SD-Box

    I miss draggable screens... and do you? I know I'm in a minority unfortunately.
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    takemehomegrandma
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    over 150 pages of documentation to get you started quickly


    :lol:

    BTW, is forms supported in any way?
    MorphOS is Amiga done right! :-)
    MorphOS NG will be AROS done right! :-)
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  • Caterpillar
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    softwarefailure
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    Why so secretive instead of naming it bluntly?


    Licensing reasons. License forbids to use the name of the company or the browser to advertise own products.
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Thank you, Andreas for this new free plugin for Hollywood.
  • »2018/5/15 16:21
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    amigadave
    Joined: 2006/3/21
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    I think the author of Hollywood has cloned himself several times, which is why he can continue to be so productive with Hollywood updates and plug-ins, year, after year, after year.

    I'm very happy to continue supporting Hollywood, and feel that buying the 2 extra licenses for my Son, and Step-Son, was money well spent.

    Keep up the great work!
    MorphOS - The best Next Gen Amiga choice.
  • »2018/5/16 1:41
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