Re: can xpdf make a shared object and headers?
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 05:47:18PM +0100, vex...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if we could get xpdf to make it's own .so and .h's so that texlive can use them. As it stands every time we find a bug in xpdf, we must duplicate the patch in tex live. IMHO it would be a much better idea to nuke xpdf from texlive and use poppler instead. Ciao, Kili
Re: can xpdf make a shared object and headers?
Hi, On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 06:58:22PM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote: On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 05:47:18PM +0100, vex...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if we could get xpdf to make it's own .so and .h's so that texlive can use them. As it stands every time we find a bug in xpdf, we must duplicate the patch in tex live. IMHO it would be a much better idea to nuke xpdf from texlive and use poppler instead. I'm looking at that right as we speak actually, but poppler tends to be a bit iffy with renderinf some PDF's. I plan to publish an experimental SVN snapshot port of TL soon. Let's see how we get on with that. For now using poppler with TL is broken. Working with TL team to fix this. -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett
Re: can xpdf make a shared object and headers?
Matthias Kilian k...@outback.escape.de wrote: On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 05:47:18PM +0100, vex...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if we could get xpdf to make it's own .so and .h's so that texlive can use them. As it stands every time we find a bug in xpdf, we must duplicate the patch in tex live. IMHO it would be a much better idea to nuke xpdf from texlive and use poppler instead. Ciao, Kili I would not be rushing so much to ditch xpdf. I know of at least couple packages from TeXLive that do not interact well with poppler. Also epdfviewer has much to be desired about. Full screen mode doesn't interact well with CWM for instance. Epdfviewer doesn't support LPD spooling system as well. For me personally with all its draw backs xpdf is the pdf viewer for Unix.
Re: can xpdf make a shared object and headers?
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 03:06:05PM -0400, Predrag Punosevac wrote: I would not be rushing so much to ditch xpdf. I know of at least couple packages from TeXLive that do not interact well with poppler. Also epdfviewer has much to be desired about. Full screen mode doesn't interact well with CWM for instance. Epdfviewer doesn't support LPD spooling system as well. For me personally with all its draw backs xpdf is the pdf viewer for Unix. There is no PDF viewer in TL, I think it is just used for PDF synthesis and decoding in tools like pdf2ps. I will CC you when I post the testing port (if thats OK with you. You are one of the frequent TL testers anyway :P). -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer) http://students.dec.bmth.ac.uk/ebarrett
Re: can xpdf make a shared object and headers?
2009/6/7, vex...@gmail.com vex...@gmail.com: There is no PDF viewer in TL, I think it is just used for PDF synthesis and decoding in tools like pdf2ps. I will CC you when I post the Only for reading pdfs. debian has been using poppler with pdftex for years. Best Martin (pdftex developer)
