[poppler] pdftocairo - Updated Patches

suzuki toshiya mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Thu Sep 30 04:55:47 PDT 2010


Thanks Stefan,

now I cannot guarantee I can have the time to work for
this within 2 weeks.

Regards,
mpsuzuki

Stefan Thomas wrote:
> Hey,
>
>>> My preference is to maintain consistency with the other poppler utils.
>>>
>>> pdftops, pdftotext, and pdftohtml all use the source file with the
>>> extension changed. I prefer pdftocairo to work the same way.
>> Totally agreed here. Stefan, how difficult would be to make
>> pdftocairo behave
>> like these programs?
>
> Not very difficult at all! Right now, I'm pretty backed up and I can't
> say when I'll have time to do it though. I'll try and do it this
> weekend or next weekend otherwise.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stefan
>
>
>>> pdftoppm is the exception in writing to stdout if no output name is
>>> specified. This only makes sense for the ppm format which allows
>>> multiple images concatenated together. Writing multiple images to
>>> stdout does not work with the png or jpeg formats.
>>>
>>> Currently none of the other poppler utils (except pdftoppm which writes
>>> to stdout) handle URLs with no output file specified. Whatever solution
>>> is chosen for providing default filenames for URLs should be
>>> consistently implemented across all the poppler utils. I would suggest
>>> implementing behavior similar to wget. ie strip off everything up to
>>> the last slash and escape any characters not supported by the
>>> filesystem. Since the other poppler utils do not work with URLs with no
>>> output file specified, I don't think finding a solution for this case
>>> should block the committing of pdftocairo.
>>>
>>>> I'll make a final patch once we've decided the filename issue.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Stefan
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