[poppler] Creating PDF with poppler ?

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Divendres, 28 de gener de 2011, Harry Roberts va escriure:
> On 28 January 2011 08:49, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > A Divendres, 28 de gener de 2011, Carlos Garcia Campos va escriure:
> > > 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 . . .
> > 
> > Agreed, anyone want to donate a server with lots of disk space and cpu
> > power?
> 
> It'd be pretty easy to setup a build & compare bot which does a perceptive
> compare against 'reference' renderings & previous versions (e.g. using
> software from phash.org).

I do have that setup already.

> How much disk space are you thinking about exactly?

You need around 3G for the pdf files and let's say 1G more for the 
intermediate temporary files. And of course you need quite a lot of CPU since 
my Intel Core 2 Duo P8700 @ 2.53GHz takes around 8 hours to run the test suite 
*only* for splash

Albert