Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 08 2005, Martin Pitt wrote: >> (who really wishes upstreams would switch to poppler after uploading >> 22 security update packgages) > > Yes, but poppler is still not exactly a complete replacement for > xpdf---at least, that is what I understand from this bug of mine: > http://bugs.debian.org/340379
One single bug need not mean that the library is not generally usable; especially if it's "only" about viewing. But the real concern that I have is whether the poppler people do actually intend to become a "libxpdf". My impression from looking at their homepage (a while ago, though) was that they wanted to create something new on top of xpdf - a unified viewing and printing tool for the desktop, based on pdf. But many projects that use xpdf code have a different interest in xpdf: They use it for parsing, analysing and manipulating PDF files, which is different from a user's point of view, and I don't know whether it's also different from a developer's. My concern is that if pdftex, pdftk, pdftohtml et al. start using libpoppler now they might find in the future that libpoppler does not all they need, or does not give proper support for them, because of its different goal. I'd be very glad to hear that this not realistic, and if I am such advised, I would be happy to create a patch for pdftex to use poppler and submit it upstream. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer