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Re: [pdf-devel] GNUpdf and other PDF projects
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jemarch |
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Re: [pdf-devel] GNUpdf and other PDF projects |
Date: |
Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:55:14 +0100 |
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Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (Shijō) APEL/10.6 Emacs/23.0.60 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) |
> The ghostscript people went ahead to write a new lightweight PDF
> interpreter called GhostPDF, independent from ghostscript. It seems
> (it is somewhat obscure) that Mupdf+Fitz is a proof of concept of that
> effort. I don't know if mupdf+fitz is still considered as a prototype
> nor the plans artifex may have for it.
"GhostPDF" is mostly a marketing term at this point. It's not
useful for distinguishing code bases.
I like the name a lot :)
We're not sure what we're going to do. We're well aware of
maintenance burden of having the PDF interpreter in PostScript.
We may port mudpdf to the gs graphics library,
Interesting.
or maybe just spruce up mupdf+fitz. In any case, we're slowly
migrating things to C.
Thanks for the info :)
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