[poppler] Thoughts on OO-ifying and modularising the pdftothml utility?

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dissabte, 29 d'octubre de 2011, Alec Taylor vàreu escriure:
> The current pdftohtml.cc is extremely in need of modularity. I'm
> considering making the utility more modular, to the point of making it
> object-orientated.
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> 	    PDFtoHTML *foo = new PDFtoHTML;
> 	    if(!foo->setArgs(argDesc, &argc, argv) {
> 	    	    delete foo;
> 	    	    return false;
> 	    else {
> 	    	    delete foo;
> 	    	    return true;
> 	    }
> }
> 
> Public member functions could include:
> GBool PDFtoHTML::toXML(char passes);
> GBool PDFtoHTML::toHTML(GBool images, GBool complex);
> GBool PDFtoHTML::PDFinfo();
> GBool PDFtoHTML::removeRestrictions();
> 
> &etc
> 
> What do you think? - Worth doing? - Useful? - Too far?!

I don't see any usefulness in this. Rembemer pdftohml is not meant to be a 
library but a command line utility, so i don't see what we gain from making it 
more modular.

OTOH if what you are suggesting is making a proper library of what 
pdftohtml&friends provide, that is a different question altogether and given 
the current wave on interest on it might make sense.

Albert


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