[poppler] error: 'class PDFDoc' has no member named 'getPDFVersion'

Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com
Thu Nov 12 13:31:07 PST 2009


On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de> wrote:
> 2009/11/12 Dominic Lachowicz <domlachowicz at gmail.com>:
>> I believe that the recommended way of using poppler is through either
>> the Qt or Glib bindings.
>
> Seems so, since poppler is a PDF _rendering_ library (according to
> http://poppler.freedesktop.org).
>
> I think Mathieu needs a PDF _parser_ library. It's easy to make that
> out of poppler (we do it for pdftex/luatex/xetex) and I strongly
> suggest to make that an official flavour of poppler.

Ah... I think that's the root of my problem :)
I thought poppler was *the* library for parsing PDF (extracted from xpdf).

I am sorry to complain some more, but where do I see that such and
such class are private implementation and should not be distributed
(eg. debian ship those header files).

Thanks,
-- 
Mathieu


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