[poppler] poppler 0.15.0 tomorrow

suzuki toshiya mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Wed Sep 15 00:34:07 PDT 2010


Daniel Garcia Moreno wrote:
> El mar, 14-09-2010 a las 22:29 +0100, Albert Astals Cid escribió:
>   
>> According to schedule i'll be releasing poppler 0.15.0 (0.16.0 alpha) 
>> tomorrow. As far as i know all is fine in master.
>>
>> Anyone has anything to say about it?
>>
>>     
>
> What do you think about the raworder selection algorithm? Maybe we can
> change it to work like that only if TextOutputDev is in rawOrder and in
> other case it will work as normal. Doing that we'll add new
> functionality to poppler (without breaking nothing) because currently,
> in raworder, selection doesn't work.
>
> I want that functionality in poppler because in evince a11y we use
> selection to get the document text and maybe we can offer two models of
> text reading, normal and raw order, and user can change if normal
> doesn't work as expected.

Now I'm writing the patches to add new function to extract raworder text,
for glib and cpp bindings. Searching in raworder text is my next task.
I was not going to push them to poppler-0.15.0. Do you think they are
required in poppler-0.15.0?

Regards,
mpsuzuki


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