[poppler] qt3 frontend

Ilya Chernykh anixxsus at gmail.com
Sat Sep 17 04:18:49 PDT 2011


On Saturday 17 September 2011 15:01:41 Pino Toscano wrote:

> > > > I saw your January post where you asked whether anybody needs
> > > > poppler-qt3, but unfortunately the people who actually need it
> > > > were not subscribed to the list at that moment.
> > > 
> > > Who actually needs it?
> > > 
> > > It seems like the trinity project isn't doing 6 monthly releases
> > > any more (last release was almost a year ago), and even in KDE3 we
> > > didn't use poppler for anything critical.
> > 
> > It is used for PDF import/export in koffice.
> 
> Just for a PDF import plugin for krita, for importing the pages of a 
> document as images (so yes, nothing critical).

Don't know about krita, but it is used by impress.

> The kword PDF import plugin (at least, as shipped upstream) does not 
> even use poppler, but it has an embedded copy of xpdf 2.00 (!).
 




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