>> Would it speed up development of PDFlib if this project just copied some >> code from poppler? Has anyone thought about that? > > poppler is actually the library version of Xpdf rendering code + > improvements. So the API is fixed and comes from old code > > gnu pdf is written from scratch, with maybe better API > > note that there is another pdf library : mupdf, which is used by > ghostscript. Also written from scratch. >
I just find it strange that when there is at least 3 free software pdf libraries out there, all the work has to be done over again each time. > PDFLib: C, GPL3 > poppler: C++, GPL2 > > How much code do you think they (can) technically and legally share? > > Best > Martin Yes, I guess different language and different license are two main problems. What about mupdf then? Well, I guess I can have look at that myself later. Terje B.
