Announcing Poppler

[Albert Astals Cid]

Hi, i think that is a good thing and i can ensure you that kpdf will make use 
of poppler as soon as possible. 

Another thing that should be discussed is who is going to have write access, 
IMHO someone from each of the projects 
(evince/kpdf/¿gpdf?/all_other_things_that_have_a_copy_of_xpdf_inside) should 
have write access to the CVS.

Moreover we are going to need a poppler mailing list or similar were we can 
talk about poppler issues as talking them in xdg ML is off-topic i suppose.

Albert.

P.D: I am glad that evince xpdf copy has my fix for CID fonts on Freetype >= 
2.1.8 that means evince team is "spying" on what we do (as we are doing with 
what they do) and using the same xpdf lib will make that "spying" useless and 
give us more time to spend on other work :-)

A Dimarts 01 Març 2005 06:39, Kristian Høgsberg va escriure:
> Hi,
> A couple of weeks ago there was some discussion about forking xpdf into
> a pdf rendering library.  The thread sort of died, but it's an important
> issue, so I've gone ahead a created this thing and called it poppler.
> I've talked to evince and kpdf authors about the idea, and there seem to
> be consensus that this is a good idea, and that these applications could
> move to poppler once it's usable.  Bryan Clark has been talking to Derek
> Noonburg, the Xpdf author, and says that Derek is OK with us forking Xpdf.
> I have a first snapshot available on
>
>    http://freedesktop.org/~krh/poppler-0.1.tar.gz
>
> which is based on the Xpdf fork in evince, so it has the latest CAN
> security fixes in it.  Aside from rearranging it to compile and install
> as a library I've changed the following:
>
>   - Added Alex Larsons cairo output device and add an optional GTK+ cairo
>     test program.
>   - Made splash backend conditional.  When the cairo backend is more
>     mature it might make sense to remove splash entirely, but for now I'm
>     keeping the splash backend as an option.
>   - Added optional GdkRGB based test program
>   - Renamed files and functions in goo/ to GooHash, GooString etc. to
>     avoid nasty glib clash.
>   - Added pkg-config files poppler-cairo.pc and poppler-splash.pc
>   - Removed xpdf application and command line tools.  It might make sense
>     to add back the command line tools later.
>
> I was talking to Albert about some of the changes they have in the kpdf
> fork, and there's a number of changes theres that we want to pull in:
>
>   - String constification
>   - Some support for using fontconfig for font lookup
>   - Better support for printing subset of pages
>
> The 0.1 snapshot is immediately usable with evince.  The configure.ac in
> evince only need to check for poppler using pkg-config and the pdf/
> subdirectory now looks like this:
>
>    GDKSplashOutputDev.cc
>    GDKSplashOutputDev.h
>    Makefile.am
>    pdf-document.cc
>    pdf-document.h
>    test-gdk-output-dev.cc
>    Thumb.cc
>    Thumb.h
>
> The details are in this patch except for the removal of the xpdf files:
>
>    http://www.freedesktop.org/~krh/evince-poppler.patch
>
> A similar simplification should be possible for kpdf, but I'd like to
> get this into CVS and pull in the kpdf changes first.
>
> Sitewranglers: could you help set this up?
>
> Project name: poppler
> Short Description: A common PDF rendering library for integrating PDF
> viewing into desktop applications.
> I already have an account (krh) on freedesktop.org.
>
> thanks,
> Kristian