Poppler talk at FOSDEM

Philipp Knechtges philipp-dev at knechtges.com
Mon Jan 20 11:26:31 UTC 2025


Hi Albert,

as maintainer of poppler, you could talk about goals and non-goals of 
poppler.

E.g. the public vs internal API topic is a constant one. Maybe provide 
an example how people should constructively contribute to poppler and 
the using application to improve the situation.

Another one is that the user-facing apps get to see lots of the bug 
reports, which usually should go directly to the poppler bug tracker. 
Maybe providing a "pdftoppm" or "pdftocairo" example, how people could 
easily test whether poppler is at fault and not Okular/Evince.

There are presumably many more of these points, I just regularly see you 
posting and repeating these. Maybe a good opportunity to get this 
message through to a larger audience, instead of repeating yourself over 
and over again.

In any case thx for giving this talk.

Best regards,

Philipp

Am 19.01.25 um 23:42 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> I will be giving a talk about Poppler at FOSDEM this year
>
> https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6000-poppler-the-pdf-rendering-library/
>
> Anything people are interested in me talking about in particular?
>
> It's only 15 minutes but I'll try to add it if you ask for something :)
>
> Cheers,
>    Albert
>
>



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