PDF-Import and/or PDF-Export

[C. Boemann]

On Sunday 20 March 2011 13:18:28 Pierre wrote:
> On Sunday 20 March 2011 09:06:31 Boudewijn Rempt 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.
> 
> Hi
> 
> I had to parse PDF files for the OpenstreetMap project in france (data
> could be extracted from PDF generated from the cadastre)
> I don't know how you plan to use poppler, but for this case, I could not
> extract any useful information from its datastructures. I instead had to
> use libpodofo. I don't think you can use poppler for Calligra needs
> (except if you implement a new poppler backend), but I'd be happy to be
> proven wrong...
> 
>  Pierre
Also libpodofo seems the only one remotely capable of generating colormanaged 
pdf, which at least Krita might like