[poppler] Creating PDF with poppler ?

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Fri Sep 16 06:50:58 PDT 2011


Thomas? Any chance we can get those man pages soon-ish?

Albert

A Dilluns, 29 d'agost de 2011, Albert Astals Cid vàreu escriure:
> A Dijous, 31 de març de 2011, Thomas Freitag vàreu escriure:
> > On 25.03.2011 21:42, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > A Dilluns, 20 de desembre de 2010, Thomas Freitag va escriure:
> > >> Hi all!
> > > 
> > > Hi
> > 
> > Hi again!
> > 
> > Sorry for this late but therefore now more correct answer. As you
> > probably know I was very busy implementing overprint, and after that I
> > took some "free poppler" days!
> > 
> > >> How I promised long time ago, here now a patch for the poppler
> > >> writing
> > >> routines and some new helper function, together with two small
> > >> sample
> > >> programs using them.
> > > 
> > > I'm resending the patch because what you sent was unnecesarily big
> > > and
> > > scary (which diff program you use?).
> > 
> > I took now Your resent patch as base, completely reviewed it (hopefully
> > nothing missing) and add the small utility programs pdfextract and
> > pdfmerge to the patch after learning a little bit more about git. This
> > patch is now created under ubuntu, so hopefully it is not bigger as
> > necessary and not so scary. I also renamed the methods according to the
> > poppler naming conventions, and the utility programs now give up with an
> > error message, if the or one of the PDFs are encrypted instead of
> > creating unreadable PDF(s).
> > 
> > > Basically there are a few stilistic things i don't like (please
> > > don't
> > > use
> > > this->)
> > 
> > I removed them now.
> > 
> > > Also do you really need to have things like ExtractPage in PDFDoc?
> > > Not
> > > sure they make sense to me there
> > 
> > It would be a greater task to move it to pdfextract (and in addition all
> > the mark methods), but it is probably doable. But on the other hand
> > there are already routines like saveAs in PDFDoc, so I just rename it to
> > savePageAs to clearify it. But if You still insist to remove them, I'll
> > try it.
> > 
> > Hopefully we are not doing work twice. As I read once again Your
> > posting, I thought that I should do something more on it.
> 
> I've commited this patch. Please create man pages for pdfextract and
> pdfmerge and send them in as soon as possible so we can include them in
> poppler 0.18
> 
> Albert
> 
> > Thomas
> > 
> > > Albert
> > > 
> > > 
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