On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 01:24:42PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 1:19 PM Marvin Renich <mrvn@renich.org> wrote: > > > > * Elena Grandi <valhalla@debian.org> [230818 05:27]: > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > > > Owner: Elena Grandi <valhalla@debian.org> > > > > > > * Package name : pdftopng > > > Description : Convert PDF to PNG > > > > > > A command line tool and python library to convert PDFs to PNGs, based on > > > pdftoppm from poppler. > > uh ? > > % pdftoppm -h 2>&1| grep png > -png : generate a PNG file > > > > This is a dependency of camelot-py (#1049944) and I intend to maintain > > > it in the Python Team. > > > > Does pdftocairo from the poppler-utils package do what you need? If > > not, would it make sense to submit patches to add pdftopng to the > > poppler-utils package instead of creating a separate package for it? > > ...or at least document why pdftoppm is not suitable. I would imagine, since the original ITP also mentioned a Python project that requires this package, that the "Python library" part may be important: the upstream authors of the other project may have decided to use it, as a Python library, instead of fiddling with child process management by themselves. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@debian.org pp@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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