[poppler] pdftohtml lets you run random shell commands

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dijous, 19 d'abril de 2012, a les 14:43:56, William Bader va escriure:
> I don't understand why converting pdf to html requires gs to rasterize to
> png, especially when pdftoppm can generate png.

Me either, we inherited pdftohtml from some other dead project via krh forcing 
it on us when he was the maintainer, if it had been my decision pdftohtml 
would not be part of poppler, it's code quality is worse than the rest of 
poppler.

I'm all for removing it, but that might bring some unwanted dead threats

Albert

> In any case, instead of
> running gs, how about linking to libspectre or libgs? configure could check
> for the libraries, and pdftohtml could enable whatever functionality that
> requires gs only when the libraries are present so that the libraries would
> not become a prerequisite for building poppler.  pdftops already has a
> conditional build enabled by -DSPLASH_CMYK=1, so there is a precedent.
> William