Re: RFS: xpdf (updated package)
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 10:38:33PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 3.02-3
> of my package "xpdf".
>
> It builds these binary packages:
> xpdf - Portable Document Format (PDF) suite
> xpdf-common - Transitional package for xpdf
> xpdf-reader - Transitional package for xpdf
> xpdf-utils - Transitional package for poppler-utils
>
> The package appears to be lintian clean.
>
> The upload would fix these bugs: 351279, 461411, 548182, 548183,
> 548184, 548185, 576543, 576683, 577031, 577086, 577917, 578892
>
> I have updated the package to use poppler instead of its own rendering
> code, which is a fairly significant but very useful/important change.
This change is for sure quite significant. BTW, do you know if the
internal code in xpdf is equivalent feature wise to poppler? I know
that poppler was a spin-off of the rendering code of xpdf. Do you know
how much they deviate one from another?
The reason of my question is that there are several pdf viewers in the
repository based on poppler. One of them is evince which often crashes
on large pdf files. In these cases xpdf was an
old-and-slow-but-always-working solution.
--
Stanislav
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