[poppler] Creating PDF with poppler ?

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

Excerpts from Albert Astals Cid's message of jue ene 27 20:14:25 +0100 2011:
> A Dijous, 27 de gener de 2011, Thomas Freitag va escriure:
> > Am 23.12.2010 18:28, schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> > > Will have a look at it after we release 0.16.0
> > 
> > When I just created the patch for radial shading, I had to remove this
> > code changes once again from the diff. And it seems, that nobody really
> > need this changes. So I would like to remove them from my git copy again
> > if nobody complains.
> 
> Eh? That's not true, i am interested in it, it's just that i need time to 
> review it. And people keep sending things that make me spend hours regtesting 
> and looking at png to see if they improved or not, so i don't find the time 
> for it.

We definitely need a solution for poppler regtesting . . . 

> Albert
> 
> > 
> > Thomas
> > 
> > > Albert
> > > 
> > > A Dilluns, 20 de desembre de 2010, Thomas Freitag va escriure:
> > >> Hi all!
> > >> 
> > >> How I promised long time ago, here now a patch for the poppler writing
> > >> routines and some new helper function, together with two small sample
> > >> programs using them.
> > >> 
> > >> In merging the writer routines I encountered, that some of the problems
> > >> I found are solved in the meantime. So, where they are solved, I left
> > >> the code as it is, but manually merging could always cause new problems.
> > >> 
> > >> The main changes beside solving some smaller problems are that I make
> > >> the most writer routines static, and that I add a new parameter
> > >> numoffset. The reason for this is the small sample program pdfmerge,
> > >> which merges several PDF to one bigger PDF, so there I have no PDFDoc
> > >> object for the resulting PDF, and I have to change the num values of
> > >> each single PDF.
> > >> 
> > >> The other small sample program I add is to do the other way round:
> > >> Extract one or more pages from a multi page PDF to several one page
> > >> PDFs.
> > >> 
> > >> I'm not an expert in configure, so I just attach the single main cc's.
> > >> Building the programs is simular topdftotext, they need parseargs and
> > >> the poppler library. So I would appreciate any help on this.
> > >> 
> > >> I think the patch together with the samples could make it easier to file
> > >> samples for bugs, i.e. extracting only the page or pages which causes a
> > >> regression, or merge several sample PDFs which causing regressions.
> > >> 
> > >> What are You thinking about it? Helpful or not?
> > >> 
> > >> Best regards,
> > >> Thomas
> > >> 
> > >> Am 28.10.2010 15:49, schrieb Jennings Jay:
> > >>> Hi poppler folks,
> > >>> 
> > >>> I am looking for a C++ example that creates PDF files using the
> > >>> poppler library.  I have poppler compiled (Windows XP / Visual Studio
> > >>> 2008) and I have working examples that **read** a PDF, but I don't see
> > >>> anything in the poppler codebase, documentation, or mailing-list
> > >>> archives to show how to **create** a PDF.  My real goal is to create a
> > >>> Geospatial PDF, but any kind of simple PDF creation example would
> > >>> probably help a lot.   Thanks for the pointer.
> > >>> 
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