[poppler] poppler-glib

Jonathan Blandford jrb at redhat.com
Sat Mar 19 19:20:29 PST 2005


Kristian Høgsberg <krh at bitplanet.net> writes:

> Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> > If people are happy with this direction, my plan is to commit these
> > files to CVS (with required auto* magic) and then gradually add the
> > remaining features to allow evince to switch to this interface.  The
> > glib wrapper would live in poppler-glib/.  This may sound very glib
> > and evince centric, but it's all steps towards getting the kpdf
> > patches landed and doing the same for qt and kpdf.
> 
> Ok, the glib wrapper is now in CVS.  Browsing through pdf-document.cc
> from evince, it looks like we need to wrap the following for evince to
> be able to use the wrapper:
> 
> 	- save document
> 	- find
> 	- password
> 	- ps export
> 	- getting table of contents
> 	- text extraction
> 	- document and page metadata
> 	- thumbnails

Awesome start!  I has to remove two references to poppler-glib.h to make
it compile, but it looks like a good start.  

Your feature list seems to be a good place to begin.  I'm sure we'll
extend it as we go along, but we'll need all that to start.

Thanks,
-Jonathan



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