[poppler] A xpdf version based on poppler

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Divendres, 2 de juliol de 2010, Rogério Brito va escriure:
> Hi there.

Hi

> 
> I don't know if this is interesting in any way or not, but I am
> currently maintaining a poppler-based xpdf at
> 
>     http://github.com/rbrito/xpdf-poppler
> 
> which I announced on Debian Planet some time ago [1] [2].  If you happen
> to have comments regarding this (gee, even if it is to say that "this is
> pure insanity") just let me know. :-)
> 
> BTW, while I am refactoring the code, I feel an urging desire to
> "modernize" the code (say, making fewer uses of some of goo-whatever).
> 
> If I happen to have any code that uses more of the standard C++ library
> and fewer custom code, would that (in principle) be something that the
> poppler team would like to have?

Not really, it don't see it giving any real benefit and would just make it 
more difficult to merge any future xpdf release.

Albert

> 
> 
> 
> Regards, Rogério Brito.
> 
> [1]
> http://rb.doesntexist.org/blog/2010/05/27/please-let-me-zoom-my-documents/
> [2]
> http://rb.doesntexist.org/blog/2010/06/10/a-version-of-xpdf-with-the-popple
> r-backend-available/