[poppler] pdf import in Inkscap using poppler_glib and poppler_cairo

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Tue Feb 15 11:23:42 PST 2011


A Dimarts, 15 de febrer de 2011, Pino Toscano va escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> Alle martedì 15 febbraio 2011, the Adib ha scritto:
> > currently Inkscape uses poppler internal API to read in pdf files.
> > Those API breaks/changes from time to time.
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> What I proposed more than one year ago:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=24162410

That'd work me too :D

Also if your custom inkscape converter does not depend in inkscape i see no 
reason why we could not have it inside poppler too if you commit to 
maintaining it here (this way you'd be much safer to API changes)

Albert


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