[poppler] Making the poppler utils operate over stdin/stdout

Dominic Lachowicz domlachowicz at gmail.com
Thu Aug 3 05:49:51 PDT 2006


Hi Albert,

> Sorry for the late reply, if i understand correctly these patches make it
> impossible to work on a file called "-", right?

That's correct.

> Wouldn't it be better to add a -stdin switch or something similar?

I personally don't really care. I followed what the other programs did
with stdin (see, for example, pdftotext.cc:199). I'm happy to change
these. I was just striving for consistency with the other utils.

Best,
Dom
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