[poppler] Creating a Beta 3

[alex bodnaru]

hi albert,

On 12/01/2012 02:39 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Dimecres, 28 de novembre de 2012, a les 10:58:23, alex bodnaru va escriure:
>> hey albert, friends,
> 
> Hi
> 
>> you were right. i've reshaped the patch to be smaller and with next to no
>> api polution. c++ vs c ;) .
>>
>> there's no api stuff i'd plan to later remove. on the contrary, i plan to
>> add functionality, that will also use the reordering mode parameter of
>> TextPage.
> 
> Can you comment what this parameter is used for? Also what happens with the 
> icu vs freebidi stuff? How will it work, do we really need to support both?
> 

as i've told you before, i wish to later auto select the reordering mode, based
on the metadata of the document.

>> i've unified the patches for #55977 and #2981, so trying to apply the older
>> patch for #2981 will fail and be not needed.
>>
>> however #2981 is more sexy then #55977 and #55979, these last ones are at
>> the foundation of text handling support, so please apply both my patches
>> for these.
> 
> I'm a bit confused here, first you say #2981 will fail but then you say that 
> both patches should be applied? or is the both applying to #55979?
> 
indeed, tu've got it right. the patch for #2981 has been included in the patch
for #55977.

as of #55979, it's a show stopper bug for extracting text from rtl documents
with glib, and hence python. moreover, it's a regressive bug, as it has been
introduced in a quite clumsy patch for rtl selection.

> Cheers,
>   Albert
> 
> P.S: Please in the future don't do what you just did, if you answer both here 
> and in the bug following the discussion is hard
> 
>>
>> #55979 shows and important regression to functionality once was better. i
>> hope my later work on logical text selection would even solve the problem
>> wrongly solved, which lead to #55979.
>> but #55979 is a solution to last, since poppler_page_get_text (PopplerPage
>> *page) has, as you see, no rectangle argument. so no need for rectangle
>> handling.
>>
>> thanks in advance,
>> alex
>>
>> On 11/26/2012 01:53 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>>> El Dissabte, 24 de novembre de 2012, a les 10:04:38, alex bodnaru va 
> escriure:
>>>> hello friends,
>>>>
>>>> thumbs up for the progress.
>>>>
>>>> however #2981 is more sexy, #55977 resolves a real design bug in a too
>>>> superficial attempt to resolve visual to logical text conversion.
>>>
>>> Are you planning to answer my questions to #55977?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>   Albert
>>>>
>>>> sorry to lobby my own reports and patches (i just know them better), but
>>>> #55979 fixes an even more annoying bug, with no workaround for the glib
>>>> api
>>>> users. python users rely on glib too.
>>>>
>>>> thanks in advance,
>>>> alex
>>>>
>>>> On 11/23/2012 07:39 AM, Adam Reichold wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> Not sure if this question is intended for everybody on the list or
>>>>> only the developers, but I'll just assume it's for everyone:
>>>>>
>>>>> Looking at the feature list and reading the bug tracker, I'd say that
>>>>> thread-safety needs to be rethought. Maybe one could make this a
>>>>> priority for the next release cycle, trying to implement the long-term
>>>>> solution of removing PDFDoc::getXRef and better distributing the
>>>>> workload, maybe under Thomas' and/or Albert's supervision. (I would be
>>>>> happy to help as much as I can, but I am not very knowledgeable about
>>>>> Poppler's internals yet.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Still, I would argue for a third beta since the RTL stuff seems almost
>>>>> like a bug and less like a missing feature and probably affects a lot
>>>>> of people. (I would also include #2981 here, which depends on #55977.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards, Adam.
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 23.11.2012 00:51, schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
>>>>>> Hi guys, if you look at
>>>>>> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/poppler you'll see that there
>>>>>> are 5 features listed for 0.22 and that I just released 0.21.2 that
>>>>>> was supposed to be the last release with new features.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't think we'll be getting all 5 in, but if we create a new
>>>>>> Beta 3 with let's say 1 week more of time maybe we can get 1 or 2
>>>>>> more in.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What do you think?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers, Albert _______________________________________________
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