[poppler] Creating a Beta 3

[alex bodnaru]

hey albert, friends,

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.

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.

#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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