GSoC 2011

[Jain Basil Aliyas]

Hi,

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:

> On Sunday 20 March 2011 Mar, Pierre Stirnweiss wrote:
> > Just something to keep in mind:
> > on windows MSVC, libpoppler is a static library ("because poppler does
> not
> > have import/export thing for the core(private) api" dixit pinotree).
> > Libpoppler is not meant to be used directly. For the karbon pdf filter
> this
> > is however what we do. This means that:
> > -either we disable the filter on windows MSVC
> > -or we link the filter to every library libpoppler was linked to. these
> > should be exactly the same ones. that solution is not very practical to
> > implement.
> >
> > So if during the course of refactoring, this could be avoided/fixed, all
> the
> > better.
>
> Yes, the words pdf import/export plugin should only use poppler-qt4 which
> is a proper shared library.

Okay, I will try to work on poppler-qt4 and investigate its capabilities!

> If that doesn't provide enough capabilities, we will probably need to work
> together with the poppler guys to improve that situation :-).
>
Scribus uses podofo library <http://podofo.sourceforge.net/about.html> for
working with PDF. Should I do a comparison study to find out which one will
suite more for this work?

>
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Thanks,

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