[poppler] poppler 0.15.0 tomorrow

suzuki toshiya mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Wed Sep 15 04:09:43 PDT 2010


Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> Excerpts from Daniel Garcia Moreno's message of mié sep 15 10:23:58 +0200 2010:
>   
>> El mié, 15-09-2010 a las 16:34 +0900, suzuki toshiya escribió:
>>     
>>> Daniel Garcia Moreno wrote:
>>>       
>>>> El mar, 14-09-2010 a las 22:29 +0100, Albert Astals Cid escribió:
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>>>> According to schedule i'll be releasing poppler 0.15.0 (0.16.0 alpha) 
>>>>> tomorrow. As far as i know all is fine in master.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone has anything to say about it?
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>>           
>>>> What do you think about the raworder selection algorithm? Maybe we can
>>>> change it to work like that only if TextOutputDev is in rawOrder and in
>>>> other case it will work as normal. Doing that we'll add new
>>>> functionality to poppler (without breaking nothing) because currently,
>>>> in raworder, selection doesn't work.
>>>>
>>>> I want that functionality in poppler because in evince a11y we use
>>>> selection to get the document text and maybe we can offer two models of
>>>> text reading, normal and raw order, and user can change if normal
>>>> doesn't work as expected.
>>>>         
>>> Now I'm writing the patches to add new function to extract raworder text,
>>> for glib and cpp bindings. Searching in raworder text is my next task.
>>> I was not going to push them to poppler-0.15.0. Do you think they are
>>> required in poppler-0.15.0?
>>>
>>>       
>> If you are doing that we can add selection in raworder to that changes.
>> I will modify my patch to work only if TextOutputDev is in raworder
>> mode.
>>
>>     
>
> Btw, I've already broken the glib API in master, so if you plan to change
> the api too, it would be nice to do it now, at the beginning of the release
> cycle. I wouldn't like to change the api for every 0.15.x release,
> although I'll probably have to do it again at some point, so if it's too
> late for 0.15.0 let's try to do all the changes for 0.15.1.
>
> Regards, 
>   

Just I've posted all 3 patches in my hand. All patches are small.

Regards,
mpsuzuki


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