[poppler] Arthur Backend

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 3 de juny de 2013, a les 11:41:35, Mihai Niculescu va escriure:
> On 06/03/2013 10:15 AM, Moritz Lipp wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On 2013-06-03 09:41:41, Mihai Niculescu wrote:
> >> Also, I am thinking of modifying the wrapper to also support Qt5 but I
> >> dont know how to  modify the build system (configure, makefiles) to
> >> search for Qt5/Qt4, set libraries and moc accordingly and to set a
> >> global variable to use it in the code in order to know which code to
> >> enable: #ifdef QT5_VERSION
> > 
> > You can use QT_VERSION and QT_VERSION_CHECK in the following way:
> >      #if (QT_VERSION >= QT_VERSION_CHECK(4, 4, 0))
> > 
> > Regarding the build system take a look at the configure.ac file and the
> > PKG_CHECK_MODULES lines at line ~580 and the CMakeLists.txt at line ~100
> > but I have to admit that I am not familiar with the build system. Maybe
> > this [1] is somewhat useful.
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > Moritz
> > 
> > [1] http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtdoc/cmake-manual.html
> 
> Thanks, sure it helps!
> 
> Now the second question, how do I make the code available to others?
> 
> Also, I see in the TODO
> (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/tree/TODO) that there is a
> wish to make ArthurOutputDev optional. Why? Isn't it better for someone
> who uses Qt and poppler-qt frontend to make use Arthur? Make Splash
> optional.

Splash is billions of times better than Arthur. If you can make it as good 
sure, but meanwhile no point in making Splash optional.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
>   Cheers,
> Mihai
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