Thanks Stefan, now I cannot guarantee I can have the time to work for this within 2 weeks.
Regards, mpsuzuki Stefan Thomas wrote: > Hey, > >>> My preference is to maintain consistency with the other poppler utils. >>> >>> pdftops, pdftotext, and pdftohtml all use the source file with the >>> extension changed. I prefer pdftocairo to work the same way. >> Totally agreed here. Stefan, how difficult would be to make >> pdftocairo behave >> like these programs? > > Not very difficult at all! Right now, I'm pretty backed up and I can't > say when I'll have time to do it though. I'll try and do it this > weekend or next weekend otherwise. > > Cheers, > > Stefan > > >>> pdftoppm is the exception in writing to stdout if no output name is >>> specified. This only makes sense for the ppm format which allows >>> multiple images concatenated together. Writing multiple images to >>> stdout does not work with the png or jpeg formats. >>> >>> Currently none of the other poppler utils (except pdftoppm which writes >>> to stdout) handle URLs with no output file specified. Whatever solution >>> is chosen for providing default filenames for URLs should be >>> consistently implemented across all the poppler utils. I would suggest >>> implementing behavior similar to wget. ie strip off everything up to >>> the last slash and escape any characters not supported by the >>> filesystem. Since the other poppler utils do not work with URLs with no >>> output file specified, I don't think finding a solution for this case >>> should block the committing of pdftocairo. >>> >>>> I'll make a final patch once we've decided the filename issue. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Stefan >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> poppler mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler >>> _______________________________________________ >>> poppler mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler > > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
