[poppler] poppler util pdftohtml

Leonard Rosenthol lrosenth at adobe.com
Fri Sep 23 04:10:27 PDT 2011


On 9/23/11 4:46 AM, "Albert Astals Cid" <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

>We do already have code that extracts the font stream. Saying this is
>illegal
>is insane, after all it is just a series of bits in a given file. Are you
>saying cat or less or vi are illegal?

That code extracts the stream for the explicit purpose of rendering the
fonts.  It does NOT write the font data into a file for the explicit
purpose of use OUTSIDE the PDF - and that's the concern.

Leonard



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