A Divendres, 14 d'octubre de 2011, Peter Breitenlohner vàreu escriure: > Hallo,
Hi > > 0. This is a request for a few modifications in the poppler sources in order > to simplify the use of libpoppler for pdfTeX, luaTeX, and XeTeX in TeX > Live. > > Please answer directly because I am not subscribed to the this list. > > Before going into any details, let me recapitulate a bit of history. > > Before 2009 pdfTeX was built with a modified version of the xpdf sources in > the TeX Live (TL) source tree. Some, but not all, of these modifications > were also applied to the xpdf distribution. As far as I know the > preprocessor macro PDF_PARSER_ONLY was introduces for the benefit of pdfTeX. > When XeTeX and luaTeX were added to TL, they used the same modified xpdf > sources. > > In 2009 this was rewritten in terms of patches applied to the xpdf > distribution and some of these patches were later included into the > distribution. > > Later in 2009 all three programs were modified such, that they could use > and installed (system) poppler library instead of xpdf from the TL tree. > > In 2011, new functionality in luaTeX required to always use poppler, and > thus a subset of the poppler sources had to be added to the TL tree. The > present status is, that luaTeX and XeTeX always use libpoppler, either from > the TL tree or a system version, whereas pdfTeX still uses xpdf from the TL > tree or a system libpoppler. > > At the moment we have to apply a few patches to poppler-0.18.0 as used in > the TL tree. These patches have to be adapted when upgrading to a newer > poppler version -- an unecessary complication. Therefore, we request that > these patches discussed below be integrated into the poppler distribution. I agree with you, it is an unnecessary complication, just use libpoppler library instead of compiling your own copy and everything is solved :-) Albert > > Regards > Peter Breitenlohner <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
