[poppler] Poppler - SVG Device

[Alec Taylor]

Once I've finished my current work on pdftohtml, I plan on porting
poppler to Wt for viewing, searching and interaction (text selection,
highlighting, bookmarking, page number jumping, hyperlink
openable[ing]) from a browser without requiring a plugin.

Maybe you'd be more interested to work with me on this?

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Todd Hubers <todd.hubers at alivate.com.au> wrote:
> I'm currently using Poppler for Text extraction and using GhostScript for
> PDF to Image functionality, all for viewing PDFs online without requiring a
> PDF plugin in the browser.
>
> I noticed Mozilla was working on an interesting project, PDF.js
> [https://wiki.mozilla.org/PDF.js]. It loads PDF files with pure Javascript
> (on a HTML5 compatible browser - probably needs canvas).
>
> This is an opportunity for poppler to steam ahead and get some headline
> grabbing exposure. The SVG format is well supported by browsers. PDFs are
> portable across systems, however SVGs are very portable (and fast) across
> the web.
>
> I propose the building of an SVG Device - PDF to SVG. I am currently
> considering using PDF to XML, to then perform XML to SVG. Given the status
> quo, I believe it's time for PDF to SVG.
>
> I see SVG as a very efficient and therefore powerful web format, I hope
> others in the poppler community will see the potential as I do.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Todd Hubers (BBIT Hons)
> Alivate
>
> PS. Perhaps we could then have PDF>Cairo, PDF>SVG, and then tools for
> SVG>XML, SVG>HTML, SVG>Text. In any case it would be good to have simply one
> direct rendering device and one "data" device.
>
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