Re: [Gimp-developer] Why is the 0.44 version of poppler required?

[Kevin Cozens]

On 2018-02-09 01:02 PM, Jehan Pagès wrote:

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 6:03 PM, Kevin Cozens  wrote:

Greetings.

The git master version of GIMP requires the 0.44 version of poppler. That
version is not available for the 18.3 (latest) version of Linux Mint. I
modified the configure.ac file to require the 0.41 version of poppler.



[snip]

So it would work. But then you may encounter bugs in rendering of
shadings. Or not. We don't take the chance. :-)


Ok, thank you for that information. If that is the only problem I will stick 
with 0.41 for now. I have never needed to import PDF files in to GIMP.


Linux Mint 19 comes out around May. When it does I will revisit the poppler 
version I'm using. If I still need to build it the updated distro may (I 
hope) include the required versions of the other dependencies needed to 
build poppler 0.44.


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Re: [Gimp-developer] Why is the 0.44 version of poppler required?

[Jehan Pagès]

Hello,

On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 6:03 PM, Kevin Cozens  wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> The subject line of this message is the short version of this email.

A bit of git log searching gives the response to this:

commit b249a998aaa57fc85975dc5dd14088f125a82930
Author: Michael Natterer 
Date:   Mon Nov 7 16:00:52 2016 +0100

Bug 763214 - Wrong rendering of shadings in PDF imports...

...(in libpoppler -> requires a more recent version)

Require libpoppler >= 0.44.0 which contains a fix for this bug.

> The git master version of GIMP requires the 0.44 version of poppler. That
> version is not available for the 18.3 (latest) version of Linux Mint. I

Note that git *master* is not supposed to follow whatever is in the
stable distributions. We may have some advance, which is normal for a
development version. If ever we limited ourselves to what is in any
distribution *currently*, then *that* would be the start for problems.

In any case, as a general rule, it is better to have state-of-the art
versions of everything since they are supposed to get better (but for
exception and regression bugs).

> modified the configure.ac file to require the 0.41 version of poppler. I ran
> distclean and a full build of GIMP and had no compile errors. I have not
> seen any problems running GIMP with this older version of poppler.

Yeah as the git message says, that's not a change of API or anything.
So it would work. But then you may encounter bugs in rendering of
shadings. Or not. We don't take the chance. :-)

Jehan

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