[poppler] Creating PDF with poppler ?

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dissabte, 17 de setembre de 2011, Thomas Freitag vàreu escriure:
> Sorry, Albert!
> 
> Your previous mail reaches me during my vacation. After I started
> reading my mails again, I had tons of poppler mails in my mailbox, so I
> decided to move them into an archive to read them later, when I have the
> time to do it. That's why I missed it (and even that You commit my patch
> 
> :-) )
> 
> I now quickly created two man pages. Are they sufficient and more
> important understandable?

Hmm, reading the behaviour of pdfextract, i see that it differs a bit from 
e.g. pdftoppm in which you do not need to define the %d and the page numbers 
are appended automatically.

I see that your way is a bit more powerful, since it allows to have the number 
at the beginning.

What I would like you to do is:
 a) Complain if no %d is in the pattern, e.g. right now
./pdfextract -f 1 -l 2 input.pdf ouput
Only extracts page 2 (page 1 is probably extracted and then overwritten)
 b) If no %d is in the pattern, just append the page number

I am fine with any of them.

The manpages look fine, but i'll hold commiting until you decide if you want 
to implement a) or b)

Do you think you can do that before the 26th that is when we are releasing 
poppler 0.18.0?

Albert


> 
> Thomas
> 
> Am 16.09.2011 15:50, schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> > Thomas? Any chance we can get those man pages soon-ish?
> > 
> > Albert
> > 
> > A Dilluns, 29 d'agost de 2011, Albert Astals Cid vàreu escriure:
> >> A Dijous, 31 de març de 2011, Thomas Freitag vàreu escriure:
> >>> On 25.03.2011 21:42, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >>>> A Dilluns, 20 de desembre de 2010, Thomas Freitag va escriure:
> >>>>> Hi all!
> >>>> 
> >>>> Hi
> >>> 
> >>> Hi again!
> >>> 
> >>> Sorry for this late but therefore now more correct answer. As you
> >>> probably know I was very busy implementing overprint, and after that
> >>> I
> >>> took some "free poppler" days!
> >>> 
> >>>>> 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.
> >>>> 
> >>>> I'm resending the patch because what you sent was unnecesarily big
> >>>> and
> >>>> scary (which diff program you use?).
> >>> 
> >>> I took now Your resent patch as base, completely reviewed it
> >>> (hopefully
> >>> nothing missing) and add the small utility programs pdfextract and
> >>> pdfmerge to the patch after learning a little bit more about git.
> >>> This
> >>> patch is now created under ubuntu, so hopefully it is not bigger as
> >>> necessary and not so scary. I also renamed the methods according to
> >>> the
> >>> poppler naming conventions, and the utility programs now give up
> >>> with an error message, if the or one of the PDFs are encrypted
> >>> instead of creating unreadable PDF(s).
> >>> 
> >>>> Basically there are a few stilistic things i don't like (please
> >>>> don't
> >>>> use
> >>>> this->)
> >>> 
> >>> I removed them now.
> >>> 
> >>>> Also do you really need to have things like ExtractPage in PDFDoc?
> >>>> Not
> >>>> sure they make sense to me there
> >>> 
> >>> It would be a greater task to move it to pdfextract (and in addition
> >>> all the mark methods), but it is probably doable. But on the other
> >>> hand there are already routines like saveAs in PDFDoc, so I just
> >>> rename it to savePageAs to clearify it. But if You still insist to
> >>> remove them, I'll try it.
> >>> 
> >>> Hopefully we are not doing work twice. As I read once again Your
> >>> posting, I thought that I should do something more on it.
> >> 
> >> I've commited this patch. Please create man pages for pdfextract and
> >> pdfmerge and send them in as soon as possible so we can include them
> >> in
> >> poppler 0.18
> >> 
> >> Albert
> >> 
> >>> Thomas
> >>> 
> >>>> Albert
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
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