Hilmar Preusse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Does poppler (http://poppler.freedesktop.org/) help in this case? > Unfortunately I don't know much about the state of that project. I'm > sure there is no Debian package for it yet.
They are vulnerable to CAN-2005-0206 :-(. Besides that, the project looks interesting. I cannot judge whether this, from http://cvs.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/README?rev=1.1.1.1&view=markup, ,---- | Second, we would like to move libpoppler forward in a number of areas | that doesn't fit within the goals of xpdf. By design, xpdf depends on | very few libraries and runs a wide range of X based platforms. This | is a strong feature and reasonable design goal. However, with poppler | we would like to replace parts of xpdf that are now available as | standard components of modern Unix desktop environments. One such | example is fontconfig, which solves the problem of matching and | locating fonts on the system, in a standardized and well understood | way. Another example is cairo, which provides high quality 2D | rendering. `---- is compatible with a use in xpdf. But in any case it would be good to know what the xpdf people think about that fork. >> It would be great if it would be possible to configure pdftex with >> "--with-system-xpdf" and automatically get new xpdf features. >> > Well that would be a job for Thomas. Dunno if we convince him to do > so. Well, I guess the main work would be on the side of the pdftex developers. Regards, Frank -- Frank K�ster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z�rich Debian Developer
