Re: Qt 5.4 update (and call for testing), January 25

[Albert Astals Cid]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Dmitry Shachnev  wrote:
> Dear Ubuntuers,
>
> Today we have reached a point when our Qt 5.4 packages are finally
> built on all architectures — so I decided to post a quick update
> on the current Qt 5.4 status.
>
> Disclaimer: we are still far from “ready for being uploaded to
> vivid archive” state. That will happen only when Qt 5.4.1 packages
> are ready and all blocking bugs are fixed.
>
> Recent progress
> ===
>
> * All the initial Qt 5.4 packaging was done by Timo Jyrinki.
> * qtwebsockets tests failure has been fixed, thanks to Helge Deller.
> * stellarium and qtserialport build failures have been fixed, thanks
>   to Łukasz Zemczak.
> * some touch-related packages have been rebuilt against Qt 5.4
>   (Dmitry Shachnev, Łukasz Zemczak).
> * some Qt packages have been synced/merged from Debian experimental
>   (Dmitry Shachnev).
>
> Known bugs
> ==
>
> The full list of Qt 5.4 bugs is available at
> .
>
> The most important bugs are:
>
> * qtbase tests failures
> * ubuntu-ui-toolkit tests failures
> * unity8 behaviour bugs

There's no unity8 bugs in that list, right? I mean I fixed all the
ones that Timo found.

Or is that more of a "this is the order in case of we find some bugs
in those components" list?

Cheers,
  Albert

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Re: Ubuntu Touch: Poppler or MuPDF as PDF renderer

[Albert Astals Cid]

On Friday 17 May 2013 15:40:56 Till Kamppeter wrote:
> Hi,

Hi

> during my thoughts about the printing stack for Ubuntu Touch [1] I came
> to the conclusion that printing needs a PDF renderer to turn incoming
> PDF into the printer's language (PWG Raster, PostScript, PCL, ...) but a
> PDF renderer needs already to be on a mobile device to make it able to
> display PDF files on the screen.
> 
> The Ubuntu desktop uses Poppler for screen display and Ghostscript for
> printing. On a mobile device this is overkill. We need only one PDF
> renderer and also no PostScript interpreter as for printing we expect
> all apps to send PDF.
> 
> So Ghostscript is out of the question here as it is large and the PDF
> interpreter is written in PostScript. Poppler has the advantage of
> having a long history and so it should deal best with quirky files.
> MuPDF is written with lightweightness in mind, is the only free software
> which allows filling and saving PDF forms, 

Poppler supports filling and saving forms since a long time.

Cheers,
  Albert

> and is written by the
> Ghostscript developers who are experts on the field of printing.
> 
> So I want to call for testing the two (Poppler, MuPDF) and for discussion.
> 
> We have also a Blueprint [2] and a Wiki page [3].
> 
>Till
> 
> [1]https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/client-1305-printing-stack-> 
> with-mobile-in-mind
> [2]https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/client-1305-pdf-renderer-f
> or-ubuntu-touch [3]https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/PDFRenderer

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