cf my remark on the GSOC2011 thread about libpoppler on windows MSVC. Pierre
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Boudewijn Rempt <b...@valdyas.org> wrote: > On Saturday 19 March 2011 Mar, Diego Turcios wrote: > > Hi I was looking at the KDE Wiki, and I have interest in the PDF-Import > > and/or PDF-Export project. > > I have some experience in QT c++. The project sounds interesting, I will > > like to know am little more about this project. > > I'm not totally sure which wiki page you were looking at :-). I guess > http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas#Project:_PDF-Import_and.2For_PDF-Export, > right? > > Sebastian Sauer is on holiday right now, but the description has most of > the basics. You need to investigate the poppler library to start with. The > idea is to be able to load PDF documents as editable text. Years ago, KWord > had this ability through using xpdf directly ( > http://websvn.kde.org/branches/koffice/1.6/koffice/filters/kword/pdf/). > However, xpdf causes a steady stream of security issues, so it's necesary to > use a real library for that, poppler. I'm not sure myself how I would go > about it, but I would start browsing the old code and the poppler api > documentation (http://people.freedesktop.org/~aacid/docs/qt4/). Focus on > the import part first: right now our pdf export is not great, but it works. > > -- > Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org, http://www.krita.org > _______________________________________________ > calligra-devel mailing list > calligra-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel >
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