Re: can xpdf make a shared object and headers?

2009-06-07 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 05:47:18PM +0100, vex...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if we could get xpdf to make it's own .so and .h's so that texlive can use them. As it stands every time we find a bug in xpdf, we must duplicate the patch in tex live. IMHO it would be a much better idea to nuke

Re: can xpdf make a shared object and headers?

2009-06-07 Thread vext01
Hi, On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 06:58:22PM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote: On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 05:47:18PM +0100, vex...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if we could get xpdf to make it's own .so and .h's so that texlive can use them. As it stands every time we find a bug in xpdf, we must

Re: can xpdf make a shared object and headers?

2009-06-07 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Matthias Kilian k...@outback.escape.de wrote: On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 05:47:18PM +0100, vex...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if we could get xpdf to make it's own .so and .h's so that texlive can use them. As it stands every time we find a bug in xpdf, we must duplicate the patch in tex

Re: can xpdf make a shared object and headers?

2009-06-07 Thread vext01
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 03:06:05PM -0400, Predrag Punosevac wrote: I would not be rushing so much to ditch xpdf. I know of at least couple packages from TeXLive that do not interact well with poppler. Also epdfviewer has much to be desired about. Full screen mode doesn't interact well with

Re: can xpdf make a shared object and headers?

2009-06-07 Thread Martin Schröder
2009/6/7, vex...@gmail.com vex...@gmail.com: There is no PDF viewer in TL, I think it is just used for PDF synthesis and decoding in tools like pdf2ps. I will CC you when I post the Only for reading pdfs. debian has been using poppler with pdftex for years. Best Martin (pdftex developer)