C-only poppler API (Re: [poppler] poppler CUPS integration)

[Martin Schröder]

2006/10/27, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>:
> A Divendres 27 Octubre 2006 21:35, Martin Schröder va escriure:
> > The high-level answer: pdfTeX uses xpdf to include pages from pdfs
> > into the pdfs it produces, so we need everything to be able to parse,
> > copy and manipulate the document, it's pages and their objects.
>
> I assume you have code that uses the above mentioned classes to do this,
> right? because AFAIK xpdf code can not do what you want (merging pdf, etc),
> so what about importing your code to poppler and giving it a stable api so
> other people can use it too?

Yes, we have the code (it's mainly in pdftoepdf.cc, and the font
handling is elsewhere). You are free to extract that code, but  that
is not our main concern.

To be frank: The code we currently have works well enough so  our
desire for new code is quite low (unless pdf changes drastically like
it did with the stream objects in 1.5). The main push for change are
the security problems of xpdf.

> > We are not concerned about rendering.
>
> Well, i am, so you'll care about non rendering and i about rendering, ok? ;-)

Ok. But please make sure that we can have a version that doesn't e.g.
depend on X11 or gtk.

> > We also need the code to not only run on Linux, but Unix and Windows as
> > well.
>
> This is poppler desire too.

Good. Our xpdf code already does that. :-)

Best
   Martin