[poppler] [REMINDER] Poppler 0.6 release

[Laurent Aguerreche]

Le dimanche 26 août 2007 à 12:25 +0200, Pino Toscano a écrit :
> 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.

To be clear: do you mean Evince as client for instance?


> > *** 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

Laurent.
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