On Thursday 27 March 2008 10:03:50 Ken Moffat wrote: > > myself. For cups I propose to use 1.2.12 with the patches from > > OpenSuse (I'm using 1.3.6 on one box in a newer system, but I think > > I changed the instructions - 1.2.12 should just work with the > > 1.2.11 instructions). I also think we should go with cups-1.2.12. I can confirm it works with existing instructions, and it doesn't break any packages that depend on it, unlike cups >= 1.3.0.
> > The first references poppler < 0.5.91 (we are on 0.5.4), I see > 0.8.0 is now out (and poppler-data-0.2.0) but I haven't even used > 0.6/0.1 with the BLFS-6.3 book. A quick look suggests evince > is the user to test. Perhaps also abiword, but that always > complains that poppler was installed without the xpdf headers (and > can nevertheless save as .pdf). > I've been using poppler-0.6.3 with poppler-data-0.2.0 on my daily system, and it works well in a KDE environment. I can't claim to have done extensive testing on it tho, and I haven't tried poppler-0.8 either. > - I feel fairly confident the updated kde versions in the book > include these fixes, but on my current system I can see that > kdegraphics-3.5.8 appears to be using poppler. > In kdegraphics, the pdf plugin uses poppler, while kpdf is a kde rewrite of xpdf. So, updating poppler will fix the plugin, but I wouldn't know where to find out where kpdf is fixed or not. -- Robert Daniels -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
