[poppler] Poppler as a library for parsing and manipulating PDF files?

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 02:51 PM 1/24/2006, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
>The only reservation I have is that we've been 
>trying to wrap up the xpdf API that tetex (and 
>cups and others) use in a smaller, simpler API 
>with glib and qt bindings.  To motivation for 
>this is that the xpdf API is basically an 
>internal API that wasn't designed to be 
>installed as public headers. It's a huge API 
>(80+ C++ header files) and it exposes too much 
>of the xpdf internals.  Thus, it is not really 
>possible to give any kind of API/ABI guarantee 
>for this interface, since everything except the 
>smallest changes are going to cause at least ABI breakage.

         But nothing necessarily precludes 
someone from using it if they see fit....OR 
building additional API sets on top (as we saw 
recently with that other library bindings).


LDR

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