On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 6:45 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> (Warnings: the PDF documentation is big, you'll appreciate why C and C++
> programmers have difficulty implementing PDF without filling it with
> vulnerabilities, and you'll also get to see some totalitarian-friendly
>
This point is well taken. For my package's core functionality I mainly need
to be able to get a page count and the size of the first page. I would
rather not have to try and write my own functions to do that; even though
it looks (from the docs you provided) like the parsing wouldn't be too
Side comment for the list, on software engineering security practice...
If what you have to do with the PDF is simple to do to the raw PDF
format, and your code might be fed PDF files of provenance that you
don't control, it's probably better security not to involve Poppler.
Trying to test a new package of mine on Windows.
On a fresh install of 6.12 on Windows (Win10 if it matters), I installed
package `pdf-read`, as well as `racket-poppler`.
Running this program in DrRacket:
#lang racket
(require pdf-read)
Results in the error:
ffi-lib:
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