[poppler] Creating PDF with poppler ?

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Diumenge, 18 de setembre de 2011, Thomas Freitag vàreu escriure:
> Am 17.09.2011 17:21, schrieb 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.
> 
> I decided to implement a) with one small change: if only one page should
> be extracted pdfextract doesn't complain if %d is missing, i.e.
> 
> ../pdfextract -f 1 -l 1 input.pdf firstpage.pdf
> 
> is still possible.
> I attach a complete patch containing the man pages, too, and also the
> changes in Makefile.am so that the man pages are installed automatically.

It's in.

Albert

> 
> Thomas