[poppler] [REMINDER] Poppler 0.6 release

[Pino Toscano]

Alle sabato 25 agosto 2007, Albert Astals Cid ha scritto:
> I vote from 3rd september.

+1

> I know Carlos wanted to introduce changes to glib and Pino to qt. Send them
> NOW!

Here you have it. (Let's see what I can do for the annotations stuff.)

> *** "unwrapping" of ff,fi, etc ligatures ***
> I don't want to do it, but that's only me, there seems to be lots of votes
> on the other direction, what do you, Carlos, Jeff, Pino, krh say? And any
> of the yes voters will send a patch? ;-)

I think the responsibility for "unwrapping" the ligatures should be on the 
clients (== users of poppler == applications, mostly), because they can 
really know whether they can handle ligatures or not. If they can, good for 
them - if not, they will need to "unwrap" them at once.

> *** beign more lax about ending %%EOF ***
> Lately there seem to be some pdf around that do not end with %%EOF. That
> sucks as they break the check i introduced for %%EOF beign present and are
> not REAL pdf.
> [...]
> So i introduced the %%EOF check to avoid that. 
> But it seems that is hurting us now, so we can remove the %%EOF check and
> try to improve poppler not to crash on incomplete documents or leave it
> that way and keep repeating our users that if it does not have an %%EOF
> it's not a PDF and that they should bug the producer not the consumer of
> the pdf file. Or any other suggestion?

+1 on removing the check, as other than exisiting documents without it, there 
are documents with a bogus EOF marker (like "%EO" or sort of, see [1]).

[1] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142140
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Pino Toscano
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