Adam Reichold <adam.reich...@t-online.de> writes: > Hello, > > I am obviously not a maintainer, but here a my two cents anyway: Just > from reading this and hence assuming that OPVP is to become generally > relevant, I think upstreaming the OPVPOutputDevice and possibly even > making pdftoopvp part of poppler-utils sounds like the most reasonable > course of action and would be more or less parallel to the already > existing PostScript output device and utility program.
I agree. > Best regards, Adam. > > Am 02.12.2016 um 01:37 schrieb suzuki toshiya: >> Dear Poppler maintainers, >> >> I would like to hear your comments about the possibility >> of the disclosure of functions used "in" libpoppler, like, >> Goo, Fofi and Splash (if there was some discussion in the >> past, please give me the pointer to there). >> >> It could be useful for the developers who want to make >> their own new OutputDevice, out of libpoppler. Or, it is >> better for the developers to propose new OutputDevice to >> be included by future release of libpoppler, rather than >> making external library referring private functions? >> >> -- >> >> Recently, CUPS developers discussed about the future of the >> filter "pdftoopvp". OPVP is an API set for the non-PostScript >> printers discussed by the engineers in OpenPrinting consortium >> under Linux Foundation (OPVP is not yet another PDL). >> >> Also Ghostscript supports OPVP output, some engineers >> regarded Ghostscript is overkilling for pdf-to-opvp data flow, >> and using Poppler would be more compact & straightforward. >> >> However, libpoppler has no officially-exposed APIs to make >> user-defined OutputDevice. Thus, pdftoopvp filter links to >> private functions in libpoppler, to make OPVPOutputDevice >> (basically it is a diversion of SplashOutputDevice). >> >> Some people have concerns that linking private functions >> might be risky, because nobody guarantees the compatibility. >> >> Thus, I want to ask the questions in the beginning. Is >> there any possibility for libpoppler to expose some internal >> functions for user-defined OutputDevice developers, or, >> they should propose their OutputDevice to libpoppler? >> >> I hope to hear your opinions. >> >> Regards, >> mpsuzuki >> >> _______________________________________________ >> poppler mailing list >> poppler@lists.freedesktop.org >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler >> > > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > poppler@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler -- Carlos Garcia Campos PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x523E6462
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