El Diumenge, 27 de maig de 2012, a les 08:16:35, Thomas Freitag va escriure: > Hi all, > > I'm wondering a little bit why all threads with the theme "Using poppler > in java" seems to run in a dead end. Is it > a) because the poppler community has no interests?
Personally i have no interest :D > b) because the people opening the threads are not willing to work on it? Most probably > c) because they are opening new projects which are not supported by poppler? Don't understand what you mean here. > If a) is the case stop reading, if c) is the case (but I haven't found one) > I would be really surprised, because it is in the nature of JNI interfaces > they should be supported by the C/C++ developpers: One good reason is that > C/C++ interface functions could be changed between > versions and it is annoying to keep after in this case the poppler > versions, another good reason is that a lot of C/C++ libraries uses > error exits / error handler which is hard to support in a JNI library > (throwing / catching exceptions is nearly impossible in a JNI library, > an exit would cause the java application to die, too), and at least the > jpeg library and the lcms library used by poppler have these kind of > error handler. Do you mean here that it'll be easier to code that JNI stuff inside the poppler repo that outside the poppler repo? > If b) is the case, okay, I'm willing to start a JNI project. I'm > thinking of start with something like the cpp by Pino in Java, but I > would first like to gather some requests what should be possible in a > Java interfaces. Another idea could be creating a FOP extension based on > poppler, I had some bad experiences with using PDFBox, i.e. endless > loops if I just want to extract the text from a PDF document. Cheers, Albert > > Cheers, > Thomas > > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
