Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 07/18/2011 10:04 PM, schrieb David McKay: >> >> On 18/07/11 20:50, Andy Brown wrote: >>> Mathias Bauer wrote: >>>> On 18.07.2011 20:21, Mathias Bauer wrote: >>>> >>>>>> 1) xpdf (GPL'd) is a run dependency, this is linux/unix >>>>>> specific. PDFBox may be a replacement. >>>>> This component is used for the pdf import extension, not for OOo >>>>> itself. >>>>> >>>>> The pdf import extension is not built by default, there is a configure >>>>> switch to enable it in the build. In that case xpdf would be >>>>> required. I >>>>> think that this already fulfils the legal requirements that building >>>>> lgpl code must be "opt-in". So as far as I can see, this is not a >>>>> "to do". >>>> Giving it one more thought: it would be still a to do if we wanted to >>>> have a pdf import extension released by Apache. So perhaps a to do with >>>> minor priority. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Mathias >>> If we do include the pdf import extension I would like to see it >>> rewritten to do a better job of importing. I have seen to many post in >>> the forums about the way that it works. My suggestion would be to drop >>> it completely. >>> >>> Andy >>> >> A lot of the issues I see on the forum regarding the PDF extension are >> to do with expectation. People seem to think this extension is going to >> give them a full-blown PDF editor with the capabilities of the Adobe >> tools. When they discover it is for tiny corrections and typo fixes they >> feel let down. That's not to say there aren't any bugs in it, there may >> well be. But I don;t think the PDF extension was positioned or described >> sufficiently to provide users with the correct expectations. > > The intension was to show what is possible. On the extension website is > a note that the Beta status was left due to the positive notes we got > about the extension. But this is no promiss that its quality is like the > import filter for the documents formats for MS Word & Co. > > The solution is not to remove the extension but to improve it's work. > > Marcus >
If it can be improved then it maybe worth the effort. I still think an OCR engine would do the work. Andy
