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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : pdfio
Version : 1.4.0
Upstream Author : Michael Sweet <[email protected]> (Author of CUPS)
* URL : https://www.msweet.org/pdfio/
* License : Apache-2.0-with-GPL2-LGPL2-Exception (same as CUPS)
Programming Lang: C (Just C, NOT C++)
Description : C library for reading, writing, and manipulating PDF files
PDFio is a library for reading, writing and manipulating PDF files, but not for
rendering or displaying them. It is written by Michael Sweet, author of CUPS,
mainly with the purpose to not have C++ (QPDF for example is written in C++) and
also to have a more useful license (Mike chose the same license as for CUPS)
than many other projects.
libcupsfilters uses QPDF for manipulation of print jobs in PDF format, like
printing several pages on one sheet, printing only selected pages, ... It
principally works, but there are some quirks, especially when making a Debian
package of a C++ library the *.symbols file contains tons of ghost symbols which
do not belong to the API and they even differ depending on the architecture,
producing a maintenance nightmare. Therefore I decided to switch libcupsfilters
from using QPDF to PDFio.
The needed investigations and coding on libcupsfilters were already done, in the
following Google-Summer-of-Code project:
Replace QPDF by PDFio as PDF manipulation library in libcupsfilters
Contributor: Uddhav Phatak
https://medium.com/@uddhavphatak/gsoc-2024-final-report-the-refactor-report-a46756e9d6ce
The code is in the following Pull Request on libcupsfilters:
https://github.com/OpenPrinting/libcupsfilters/pull/71
I will soon be finished and ready to merge and once I have merged it I will make
a new release of libcupsfilters, version 2.2.0, which will use PDFio and
therefore depend on it. This requires PDFio to be packaged in Debian.
As we need this package also in Ubuntu, I have already created and it can and
should be used in Debian as well. You find it on my PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~till-kamppeter/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
https://launchpad.net/~till-kamppeter/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages
https://launchpad.net/~till-kamppeter/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+sourcefiles/pdfio/1.4.0-0ubuntu1~ppa1/pdfio_1.4.0.orig.tar.gz
https://launchpad.net/~till-kamppeter/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+sourcefiles/pdfio/1.4.0-0ubuntu1~ppa1/pdfio_1.4.0-0ubuntu1~ppa1.debian.tar.xz
https://launchpad.net/~till-kamppeter/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+sourcefiles/pdfio/1.4.0-0ubuntu1~ppa1/pdfio_1.4.0-0ubuntu1~ppa1.dsc
To avoid source tarball mismatches between Debian and Ubuntu please use the
source tarball from the Launchpad link above.
As it is primarily used in the printing stack I recommend maintainership by the
Debian Printing Team and Thorsten Alteholz.
Till
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Source: pdfio
Source-Version: 1.5.1+dfsg-1
Done: Bastian Germann <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
pdfio, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bastian Germann <[email protected]> (supplier of updated pdfio package)
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Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1.5.1+dfsg-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Bastian Germann <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Bastian Germann <[email protected]>
Description:
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libpdfio1 - C library for reading and writing PDF files
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