[poppler] pdf import in Inkscap using poppler_glib and poppler_cairo

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Tue Feb 15 11:02:34 PST 2011


A Dimarts, 15 de febrer de 2011, the Adib va escriure:
> Hello Poppler team,

Hi

> 
> currently Inkscape uses poppler internal API to read in pdf files.
> Those API breaks/changes from time to time.

Yes it does.

> Now I try importing pdf via poppler cairo surface and those cairo
> surface as svg backend. So far that works.
> 
> But I do not have any control over the process:
> - I can not set bitmap dpi
> - I can not specify if text stays text or convert to path
> etc.
> 
> Do you have any sugestions?
> 
> A while ago there was this disscussion about poppler_svg backend. I
> did not read anything later.

As far as i know there is a quite rudimentary version somewhere in 
Calligra/KOffice svn, not sure how good it works.

> What I would like is a intermediate object abstraction layer so that
> it is not necesary an SVG format.
> Can we achieve this?

Intermediate between PDF and SVG?

Albert

> 
> Thank you for any coments,
> 
> regards, Adib.
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