[poppler] Poppler 0.18.0 schedule

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

Excerpts from Albert Astals Cid's message of lun ene 17 00:38:44 +0100 2011:
> A Diumenge, 16 de gener de 2011, Pablo Rodríguez va escriure:
> > On 01/02/2011 02:17 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > Hi, I know it's early, but the earlier the better, so let's discuss the
> > > Poppler 0.18 release schedule:
> > > 
> > > This is my proposed schedule:
> > >   * Apr  4            Poppler 0.17.0 (0.18 Alpha)
> > >   * May  2 (+4 weeks) Poppler 0.17.1 (0.18 Beta)
> > >   * May 16 (+2 weeks) Poppler 0.17.2 (0.18 Beta 2)
> > >   * May 30 (+2 weeks) Poppler 0.17.3 (0.18 RC)
> > >   * Jun 27 (+4 weeks) Poppler 0.18.0
> > > 
> > > We accept new features until Beta 2. Afterwards it's just bugfixing.
> > 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I have only a question.
> > 
> > It seems that the poppler rendering and parsing model needs refactoring
> > to be used to display page slices in evince
> > (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303365#c45). I guess the
> > scenario may be the same in Okular
> > (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148527).
> > 
> > I wonder whether this issue will be addressed in this version. (I cannot
> > contribute patches.)
> 
> Poppler supports slice rendering since ages.

Yes, but it parses the whole page again for every slice, Pablo means
change poppler from the current parse + render model to parse to
intermediate format + parse model.

> Albert
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > 
> > Pablo
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