[poppler] A question about xpdf

[Andreas K. Huettel]

As a side note, a port of xpdf to using poppler has already been done some 
time ago.

https://github.com/rbrito/xpdf-poppler

Am Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2014, 18:38:02 schrieb Svante Signell:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm a user of xpdf, which I like a lot for viewing and printing PDF
> documents. The latest release of xpdf was 3.0.3 August 15 2011 (by Glyph
> & Cog, LLC). Recently the latest patched version in GNU/Debian is having
> serious bugs and is removed from testing, i.e. it will no longer be part
> of Jessie when it is released. In my opinion it is a pity that it
> disappears, even if other PDF viewers are available. The main reason for
> not working any longer is that the PDF rendering backend conflicts with
> libpoppler, which is currently used also for xpdf. The problem is
> between some classes and functions in xpdf and poppler.
> 
> Looking at the webpage for poppler, the description makes this conflict
> clear: "Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code
> base." So the classes in poppler are newer versions of parts of the xpdf
> code, converted to a library. Finding the problems of a disappearing
> xpdf annoying (Debian popcon shows 10 000 installations) I managed to
> clear out conflicting and redundant code (some work still needed) to
> make it run again. Since the changes were so large, Debian people did
> not want to carry this kind of patches, since Debian Maintainers
> normally package upstream source code, forward patches upstream, and
> carry Debian-specific patches.
> 
> Their recommendation was to contact you, in case I take over the
> responsibility for xpdf as a new (forked) upstream. My question is if
> you allow me to reuse the name xpdf for a stripped-off version using
> poppler as backend, otherwise another name has to be chosen. Of course,
> if xpdf could again be a package with poppler (Glyph & Cog, LLC)?) as
> upstream would be the best solution. In that case I will gladly submit
> my patches here.
> 
> Best regards,
> Svante Signell
> 
> 
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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
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