[poppler] Prototype PDF import GIMP plug-in based on poppler

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 06:23 AM 6/19/2005, Nathan Summers wrote:
>I've created an initial version of a PDF import plugin for GIMP that
>uses poppler.

         Cool!


>  Currently this version has little to offer compared to
>the existing ghostscript-based PDF import plugin,

         Should be noticeably faster (and depending on the version of GS 
installed), higher quality.


>While this version uses poppler to render whole pages, it would be
>nice if it were possible to access individual elements, such as boxes
>of text or images, and have each rendered into a separate GIMP layer.

         Interesting, but what purpose would it serve?   If GIMP had "real" 
text layers (ala PSD), then it might be interesting to create such from PDF 
- but otherwise, I don't see any use.

         What did you have in mind?


Leonard

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