Re: [pdf-devel] About Gnu-PDFlib and Poppler

[Vincent Torri]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, Terje Bråten wrote:

> Hi PDF developers.
>
> I was wondering, do Gnu-PDFlib and Poppler share some of the same code?
> I guess since both are free software projects I guess it would be no
> problem to "borrow" code from each other?
>
> Are there at least some plans to provide some of the same API as poppler
> for the application layer? It would be good if someone that wanted to
> change from poppler to Gnu-PDFlib did have to change too much.
>
> Would it speed up development of PDFlib if this project just copied some
> code from poppler? Has anyone thought about that?

poppler is actually the library version of Xpdf rendering code + 
improvements. So the API is fixed and comes from old code

gnu pdf is written from scratch, with maybe better API

note that there is another pdf library : mupdf, which is used by 
ghostscript. Also written from scratch.

hth

Vincent Torri