[poppler] Abiword Poppler Backend

[Dominic Lachowicz]

For the sake of discussion, here's an example of what it does:

http://uwog.net/news/?p=48

Thanks,
Dom

On 4/3/07, Dominic Lachowicz <domlachowicz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Albert,
>
> The code is part of last year's AbiWord Summer of Code project. The
> goal was to reconstruct a more-or-less semantically accurate version
> of a PDF document, capable of being imported to a Word processor. So
> things like lists, columns, headings, TOCs, tables, headers, footers,
> footnotes, and etc. would be preserved.
>
> From what I can tell, there is a pretty big demand for this amongst
> AbiWord's users, and probably carries over to KWord, OOo Writer, and
> their kin.
>
> This plugin converts PDF to AbiWord's native format, preserving
> columns, text formatting, paragraphs, and a few other things. Jauco
> could tell you better than I could.
>
> Ideally, we could push a few of these OutputDevs into Poppler proper,
> instead of its command-line utility directory. And then expose glib/QT
> APIs equivalent to:
>
> char* poppler_document_convert_to_text ()
> char *poppler_document_convert_to_html ()
> ...
>
> Jauco's OutputDev adds a dependency on libxslt and libxml2, IIRC.
> However, this is currently limited to the 'pdf2abw' program. That
> would of course change if we decided to move it into Poppler proper.
>
> For the time being, I can make building pdf2abw contingent on finding
> these dependencies if someone wants.
>
> Cheers,
> Dom
>
> On 4/3/07, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > A Dimarts 03 Abril 2007, Jeff Muizelaar va escriure:
> > > Included below is Jauco's work from SoC 2006. It doesn't modify any
> > > existing poppler code so I don't see any reason not to merge it. Does
> > > anyone disagree?
> >
> > What does it do?
> > Is he willing to mantain it?
> > Does it have any additional dependency?
> >
> > Albert
> >
> > >
> > > -Jeff
> > >
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