On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 09:39:38AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Hi there, Hamish & Co.
>
> On Jul 29 2009, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:13:39PM -1000, Ryo Furue wrote:
> > > Hi Moritz,
> > >
> > > | xpdf is a dead end.
> > > |
> > > I'm sorry to hear that. (No, it's not possible
> > > for me to take care of the package, unfortunately.)
> >
> > That's Moritz's observation/opinion rather than Xpdf's author's.
> > It's certainly a long time between releases though.
>
> I sincerely hope that xpdf is not dead, as the tookits used with other
> viewers make things hugely impractical for the very same purpose that
> Ryo states.
xpdf has been removed from Squeeze at this point.
> I also frequently need to log into a remote computer to see PDF
> files---and such files can only be viewed on a remote computer, due to
> policies of publishers of scientific papers tying the access to an IP
> subnet.
That can just as well be done with any other PDF viewer?
> And when I am not a the University and have to read a given reference,
> my only option is to log in remotely. Also, the current "modern"
> solutions based on poppler seem to have drawbacks (I'm thinking
> particularly of evince, which uses cairo and, according to some bugs
> upstream, can't use a zoom factor greater than 400% for performance
> issues).
There are several implementations based on poppler, you should try a
different one, then (or file a bug against evince).
> Auditing the patches from poppler and seeing if they are relevant to
> xpdf would be a good thing, even if xpdf goes into "maintenance mode"
> only.
The only really supportable way would be to hack xpdf to link against
poppler, maintaining a separate copy needs to stop for Squeeze.
Cheers,
Moritz
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