A Divendres 27 Octubre 2006 23:52, vàreu escriure: > 2006/10/27, Albert Astals Cid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > A Divendres 27 Octubre 2006 21:35, Martin Schröder va escriure: > > > The high-level answer: pdfTeX uses xpdf to include pages from pdfs > > > into the pdfs it produces, so we need everything to be able to parse, > > > copy and manipulate the document, it's pages and their objects. > > > > I assume you have code that uses the above mentioned classes to do this, > > right? because AFAIK xpdf code can not do what you want (merging pdf, > > etc), so what about importing your code to poppler and giving it a stable > > api so other people can use it too? > > Yes, we have the code (it's mainly in pdftoepdf.cc, and the font > handling is elsewhere). You are free to extract that code, but that > is not our main concern. > > To be frank: The code we currently have works well enough so our > desire for new code is quite low (unless pdf changes drastically like > it did with the stream objects in 1.5). The main push for change are > the security problems of xpdf.
Ok, so i guess you are saying you are not going to dig the code and create the library yourselves, right? I would say we (poppler devels) don't have enough the time for that either, so i think we should try to find a "new developer", and you would guide him through the pdfTex internals and I will answer the questions he has on poppler. Agree? That way we all win (in case we can find the person :-D) > > > > We are not concerned about rendering. > > > > Well, i am, so you'll care about non rendering and i about rendering, ok? > > ;-) > > Ok. But please make sure that we can have a version that doesn't e.g. > depend on X11 or gtk. poppler does not depend on X11 nor gtk. Albert > > > > We also need the code to not only run on Linux, but Unix and Windows as > > > well. > > > > This is poppler desire too. > > Good. Our xpdf code already does that. :-) > > Best > Martin _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
