[poppler] recent defect with page.get_text

Marc J. Driftmeyer mjd at reanimality.com
Sat Sep 24 03:02:23 PDT 2011


Much better, thanks. lol.

I don't mind off-green and off-yellow faintly in engineering paper, but 
not in an email app.

- Marc

On 09/24/2011 01:55 AM, alex bodnaru wrote:
>
> On 09/24/2011 11:28 AM, Marc J. Driftmeyer wrote:
>
>> Alex,
>>
>> Is it all possible for you to change your background color from 
>> yellow to white?
>
> sorry marc. does it match your taste now ;) ?
>
> alex
>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Marc J. Driftmeyer
>>
>> On 09/24/2011 01:19 AM, alex bodnaru wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> hello albert, other friends,
>>>
>>> about the "recent" defect, it got to me since the *recent* debian 
>>> upgrade of libpoppler* from 0.12.4 strait to 0.16.7.
>>>
>>> after comparing the releases in between, i found the problem occured 
>>> from 0.13.2 to 0.13.3. couldn't attach the diff, since the message 
>>> seems to get scrubbed.
>>>
>>> i see it's a great update. any advice would be welcome.
>>>
>>> just please look at the glib/demo/poppler-glib-demo get text output 
>>> from the attached pdf, even of the fist page.
>>>
>>>
>>> thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> alex
>>>
>>> On 09/18/2011 05:09 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>>>
>>>> Please do not email me, email the list.
>>>>
>>>> A Diumenge, 18 de setembre de 2011, vàreu escriure:
>>>>> On 09/18/2011 02:41 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>>>>>> A Diumenge, 18 de setembre de
>>>>>        2011, alex bodnaru vàreu escriure:
>>>>>
>>>>> hello friends,
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>> thanks a lot albert for considering my problem.
>>>> I am not considering your problem, I am complaining about the lack of
>>>> information in your original mail ;-)
>>>>
>>>>> i'm using poppler through python (that invokes glib interface).
>>>>>
>>>>> a recent change (probably together with get_text separation) broke the glib
>>>>> interface.
>>>>>
>>>>>> what does recent mean? 0.16.7? 0.17.x? git master?
>>>>> 0.16.7.
>>>> So 0.16.7 does not work, which is the version you know it works?
>>>>
>>>> Albert
>>>>
>>>> P.S: Would it be possible for you not to send HTML email?
>>>>
>>>>>> Albert
>>>>> thanks again,
>>>>> alex
>>>>>
>>>>> i can't load the entire page text with get_text (see the glib demo) of one
>>>>> pdf i have, but pdftotext does output the entire text.
>>>>>
>>>>> my pdf is attached. i apology for the language, but i promise it's a non
>>>>> offending cadastre report. please see that not all text lines are being
>>>>> output by get_text.
>>>>>
>>>>> could you help?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks in advance,
>>>>>
>>>>> alex
>>>>>
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