[poppler] error: 'class PDFDoc' has no member named 'getPDFVersion'

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> A Dijous, 12 de novembre de 2009, Mathieu Malaterre va escriure:
>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de> wrote:
>> > 2009/11/12 Dominic Lachowicz <domlachowicz at gmail.com>:
>> >> I believe that the recommended way of using poppler is through either
>> >> the Qt or Glib bindings.
>> >
>> > Seems so, since poppler is a PDF _rendering_ library (according to
>> > http://poppler.freedesktop.org).
>> >
>> > I think Mathieu needs a PDF _parser_ library. It's easy to make that
>> > out of poppler (we do it for pdftex/luatex/xetex) and I strongly
>> > suggest to make that an official flavour of poppler.
>>
>> Ah... I think that's the root of my problem :)
>> I thought poppler was *the* library for parsing PDF (extracted from xpdf).
>>
>> I am sorry to complain some more, but where do I see that such and
>> such class are private implementation and should not be distributed
>> (eg. debian ship those header files).
>
> ./configure --help | grep xpdf
>  --enable-xpdf-headers   Install unsupported xpdf headers.

Indeed the name is quite explicit. I've filled in a bug report against
libpoppler-dev, this should get rid of similar issue on debian
based-syste, from now on.

http://bugs.debian.org/555959

Thanks,
-- 
Mathieu