Name : poppler-tools
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Version : 0.12.3
| Vendor : openSUSE Build Service
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Release : 1.3
| Date : 2012-03-16 23:00:43
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Group : Productivity/Publishing/PDF
| Source RPM : poppler-0.12.3-1.3.src.rpm
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Size : 0.20 MB
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Packager : (none)
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Summary : PDF Rendering Library Tools
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Description :
Poppler is a fork of the xpdf PDF viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC. The purpose of forking xpdf is twofold. First, to provide PDF rendering functionality as a shared library to centralize the maintenence effort. Today a number of applications incorporate the xpdf code base and whenever a security issue is discovered, all these applications exchange patches and put out new releases. In turn, all distributions must package and release new versions of these xpdf based viewers. It is safe to say that there is a lot of duplicated effort with the current situation. Even if poppler in the short term introduces yet another xpdf-derived code base to the world, it is hoped that over time these applications will adopt poppler. After all, we only need one application to use poppler to break even.
Second, we would like to move libpoppler forward in a number of areas that do not fit within the goals of xpdf. By design, xpdf depends on very few libraries and runs on a wide range of X-based platforms. This is a strong feature and reasonable design goal. However, poppler intends 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. See the file TODO for a list of planned changes.
Authors: -------- Derek Noonburg < dereknAATTfoolabs.com> Kristian H�gsberg < krhAATTbitplanet.net>
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Provides :
xpdf-tools
pdftools_any
poppler-tools
Requires :