GSoC 2011

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Sunday 20 March 2011 Mar, Jain Basil Aliyas wrote:
> 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?

That could be very interesting indeed!

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Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org