[libreoffice-design] pdf import design docs?

[Larry Evans]

On 10/05/2016 03:07 PM, Michael Stahl wrote:
> On 05.10.2016 17:24, Michael Meeks wrote:
>> 	Sure - so the PDF import is a bit of a mess; it currently spawns a
>> remote process using poplar to parse the PDF, and then extracts (via a
>
> it's spelled "poppler" :)
>
>> simple text protocol) data from poplar's rendering to re-constitute into
>> internal ODF callbacks to produce an internal document; at least -
>> that's if I got it right =)
>>
>> 	Poplar/xpdf has a GPL license and so requires all this silliness.
>
> actually the separate process is a potential security advantage, if we
> would only realize that and sandbox it properly - C++ based PDF readers
> tend to accumulate quite some CVEs...
[snip]
CVE = Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures?:
   https://cve.mitre.org/about/
>
>> 	In general - it would be -way- better to pick up something like eg.
>> pdfium - and add a rendering front-end there to match first, the same
>> protocol (but we can do this in-process), and subsquently to simplify
>> and factor lots of that madness out =) PDFium seems to be gaining
>> traction in browsers (Chrome + Firefox) and so on.

Mr. Stahl, what about this idea of using PDFium?

-regards,
Larry