PDF-Import and/or PDF-Export

[Pierre Stirnweiss]

cf my remark on the GSOC2011 thread about libpoppler on windows MSVC.

Pierre


On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:

> On Saturday 19 March 2011 Mar, Diego Turcios wrote:
> > Hi I was looking at the  KDE Wiki, and I have interest in the PDF-Import
> > and/or PDF-Export project.
> > I have some experience in QT c++. The project sounds interesting, I will
> > like to know am little more about this project.
>
> I'm not totally sure which wiki page you were looking at :-).  I guess
> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas#Project:_PDF-Import_and.2For_PDF-Export,
> right?
>
> Sebastian Sauer is on holiday right now, but the description has most of
> the basics. You need to investigate the poppler library to start with. The
> idea is to be able to load PDF documents as editable text. Years ago, KWord
> had this ability through using xpdf directly (
> http://websvn.kde.org/branches/koffice/1.6/koffice/filters/kword/pdf/).
> However, xpdf causes a steady stream of security issues, so it's necesary to
> use a real library for that, poppler. I'm not sure myself how I would go
> about it, but I would start browsing the old code and the poppler api
> documentation (http://people.freedesktop.org/~aacid/docs/qt4/). Focus on
> the import part first: right now our pdf export is not great, but it works.
>
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