[poppler] Three question on using the qt4 frontend

[Adam Reichold]

Hello,

Am 20.03.2012, 23:49 Uhr, schrieb Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>:

> El Dimarts, 20 de març de 2012, a les 14:50:59, Adam Reichold va  
> escriure:
>> Hello,
>
> Hi
>
>> I am currently maintaining a small PDF viewer called qpdfview that is
>> using the poppler library through the qt4 frontend. I have three  
>> question
>> that came up during development:
>>
>> - The ArthurOutputDev seems incomplete. Are there plans on this?
>
> There's noone working on it, patches are welcome.
>

I feared something like that. :-)

>> Can
>> someone point me to documentation about this?
>
> There's no documentation.
>
>> (I would like to use it for
>> printing in a platform independent way for which I currently fall back  
>> to
>> drawing images to the printer. (I have seen a similar workaround in  
>> Okular
>> when built on Windows.))
>>
>> - The Poppler::Page::search method is deprecated but I could not find  
>> any
>> documentation of what the plans for this are. Again, can someone point  
>> out
>> relevant documentation to me?
>
> Use the non deprecated version of Poppler::Page::search?
>

Oh. I assumed the version of search with the separate parameters for the  
rectangle was just a convenience overload. Is it a long story why the  
first (easier?) one was deprecated?

>> - The Poppler::Document::toc method currently returns a QDomDocument
>> pointer. Is there any other way to get the TOC using this frontend.
>
> No
>
>> I
>> would like to avoid using QDomDocument as this alone would add libQtXml  
>> as
>> a dependency to the program. Are there any opinions on replacing this  
>> by a
>> simple custom tree model of the TOC?
>
> What's the problem of linking with libQtXml?
>

I don't want to say that there is anything inherently wrong about it. It  
just feels a little excessive to link that whole library for that one  
feature. I feel like some of my users will care about adding dependencies.

I also thought that extracting the information from the QDomDocument is a  
bit cumbersome considering the rather well-known structure of the TOC. But  
of course, I can always write some wrapper around that if really feel the  
need to. So this is probably just an opinion.

> Albert
>
>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>>
>> Best regards, Adam.
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Thanks again. Best regards, Adam.