[libreoffice-design] pdf import design docs?

[Michael Stahl]

On 07.10.2016 13:54, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 01:00:05PM +0200, Michael Stahl wrote:
>> On 05.10.2016 23:50, Larry Evans wrote:
>>> On 10/05/2016 03:07 PM, Michael Stahl wrote:
>>>> On 05.10.2016 17:24, Michael Meeks wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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/
>>
>> yes, now look here
>> https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=xpdf
> 
> PDFium (Chrome’s embedded PDF reader), is not much better either:
> https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=pdfium

ok that looks pretty bad, but then what can you expect from C++... did
anybody write a PDF library in Rust yet?  that would be the one i'd want
to use :)