[poppler] Fwd: ANNOUNCE: Xpdf 3.03 - a PDF viewer for X

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

Excerpts from Albert Astals Cid's message of jue ago 18 12:35:35 +0200 2011:
> My plan for this.
> 
> Release 0.18 following the schedule posted a few days ago.
> 
> After 0.18 instead of a 6 months release do a short (maybe 2 month?) release 
> which includes only merging what we can from xpdf 3.03.
> 
> Comments?

It makes sense, let's see if we manage to merge all those changes
without regressions in 2 months :-P I'll try to find time to look at
the changes in more detail. 

> Albert

Regards, 

> A Dimecres, 17 d'agost de 2011, Martin Schröder vàreu escriure:
> > GPLv2++/GPLv3!
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Derek B. Noonburg <derekn at foolabs.com>
> > Date: 2011/8/16
> > Subject: ANNOUNCE: Xpdf 3.03 - a PDF viewer for X
> > 
> > 
> > Glyph & Cog, LLC is pleased to announce a new version of Xpdf, the
> > open source Portable Document Format (PDF) viewer for X.  The Xpdf
> > project also includes a PDF text extractor, PDF-to-PostScript
> > converter, and various other utilities.
> > 
> > Xpdf runs under the X Window System on Unix, VMS, and OS/2.  The non-X
> > components (pdftops, pdftotext, etc.) also run on Win32 systems and
> > should run on pretty much any system with a decent C++ compiler.
> > 
> > Major changes:
> > * Added the "fixed pitch" text extraction mode.
> > * Modified "pdftops -paper match" to handle PDF files with
> >  different-sized pages, i.e., it will now select the matching paper
> >  size on a page-by-page basis.
> > * Add ability for pdftoppm to write to stdout.
> > * Added the pdfdetach tool.
> > * Implemented 256-bit AES decryption.
> > * Commented out the t1lib section in the configure script -- t1lib has
> >  some potential security holes, and hasn't been updated in years.
> > * Redesigned the font configuration xpdfrc commands: removed the
> >  displayFontT1, displayFontTT, displayNamedCIDFontT1,
> >  displayCIDFontT1, displayNamedCIDFontTT, displayCIDFontTT, psFont,
> >  psNamedFont16, and psFont16 commands; added the fontFile,
> >  fontFileCC, psResidentFont, psResidentFont16, and psResidentFontCC
> >  commands.
> > * Switched from GPLv2 to dual v2/v3 licensing.
> > 
> > See the `CHANGES' file for a complete list of changes.
> > 
> > Source (C++ and C) is available, and it should be fairly easy to
> > compile for UNIX, VMS, OS/2, and Win32.
> > 
> > More information, source code, and precompiled binaries are on the
> > xpdf web page and ftp site:
> > 
> >    http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
> >    ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/
> > 
> > For information on commercial licensing and consulting, please see the
> > Glyph & Cog web site:
> > 
> >    http://www.glyphandcog.com/
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Carlos Garcia Campos
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