Help regarding project

[C. Boemann]

On Monday 26 December 2011 10:02:01 Sebastian Sauer wrote:
> On 12/26/2011 07:42 AM, Panks wrote:
> > Sorry for late reply, College reopening next week so have few
> > assignments to deal with in this week.
> > Hello Sebastian :-)
> > Anyway, I made that skeleton work, now it is showing pdf files in
> > 'Open Document' window and pushed it to kde git too.
> 
> Seems I am not anle to see it in our git-repository... did you do those;
> 
> git checkout master -b filter-words-pdfimport-panks
> git commit -a
> git push

uhm i always do:

git push origin filter-words-pdfimport-panks

> 
> steps and did it succeed?
> 
> > I went through that Outputdev file once roughly. Can you please give
> > me some hint on what should I hit upon/do next?
> 
> I think we need to have an own poppler OutputDev implementation in a
> similar way like at
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/tree/utils/HtmlOutputDev.cc
> <http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/tree/utils/>. We first can
> add a skeleton for that that does nothing more but to reimplement the
> beginString/endString/addChar methods and then write them to ODF
> <p><span></span></p> in a similar way the
> calligra/filters/words/ascii/AsciiImport.cpp does.
> 
> For that we are maybe forced to get a complete copy of poppler into e.g.
> calligra/filters/words/pdfimport/poppler/* when upstream doesn't allow
> to link against the libpoppler-library. We will see.
> 
> Then we would have the very basic thing already working; read the
> strings and put them into a ODT so the plain-text becomes visible in
> Words when our import-filter loads a PDF. As next step we could then add
> simple formattings like font-style, bold/italic/underline/etc and once
> that is done add the code to handle images.
> 
> Please make sure that your current code is in our git so I can help
> direct on the concrete code-base with getting this points named above
> accomplished. Lot of thanks in advance :-)