[Swftools-common] Re: poppler support

[Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen]

Hi Matthias,

On 06/10/2010 12:19 AM, Matthias Kramm wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 11:17:56PM +0000, Asbj?rn Sloth T?nnesen 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Please pull,
>>   git://git.asbjorn.biz/swftools.git startpage
> 
> Looks good. I'm gonna merge it in.

Thanks.

> One thing to be aware of is that Gfx::Gfx (the part of xpdf / Poppler
> that calls startPage) will also draw a clipping rectangle onto
> the page afterwards. For an unpatched Poppler codebase, that'll need
> to get ignored by GfxOutputDev/BitmapOutputDev somehow.
> 
>> Next up is support for building against libpoppler, hopefully tomorrow.
>> I only miss a few font API changes.

Ok, I don't have enough swftools / xpdf / poppler kung fu to fix the
outstanding font-related seqfaults that I am seeing in the font stuff
with libpoppler. I also can't find much more work time to get into the
codebase.

I hope someone else will pick up the torch, so that we can get swftools
working with poppler, and get swftools reintroduced into distributions,
like as Debian, that understandably don't like xpdf.

> How are you going to access the private functions pdf2swf
> currently uses, e.g. SplashOutputDev::doUpdateFont?

That part requires poppler to be patched, but a small change like that
shouldn't be too hard to get in, but I will rather get swftools to work
with it first, so I know the extent of total patchset beforehand.


Please pull my trivial poppler related changes, before they get out of
shape. I have rebased them onto master today.
http://git.asbjorn.biz/?p=swftools.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/poppler
git://git.asbjorn.biz/swftools.git poppler

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Best regards
Asbjørn Sloth Tønnesen