On So, 14 Mär 2010, Hartmut Henkel wrote:

well, i had patched xpdf-3.02 in the luatex distro, see SVN 3304, source/libs/xpdf/xpdf-3.02/xpdf/Page.h

On So, 14 Mär 2010, Martin Schröder wrote:

Hartmut forked our version of xpdf in r3304.

Ouch. That will make at least the distributors unhappy.

1. create a layer between xpdf/poppler and luatex like in pdftex 1.50

Probably hard according to Hartmuts remarks on "no idea how to make that consistent with poppler".

2. push changes like these upstream (i.e. to poppler) so that they get integrated there

Hahaha, Martin, wasn't it you complaining about them at one of the BachoTeXs? Well, I am not sure how to proceed. And I am not sure how happy Debian (and probably other) security guys will be about the reintroduction of code duplication etc. But if it is the only way to go, although I am unhappy, so it be. I mean, we could have saved us all the work last year to convert TeX Live to a way that it compiles both wiht poppler and xpdf, only to see that it will soon break again ... :-( Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} JAIST, Japan TU Wien, Austria Debian TeX Task Force DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TIDPIT (n.) The corner of a toenail from which satisfying little black deposits may be sprung. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff

On So, 14 Mär 2010, Martin Schröder wrote:

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 1. create a layer between xpdf/poppler and luatex like in pdftex 1.50

Probably hard according to Hartmuts remarks on "no idea how to make that consistent with poppler".

I doubt it. At the end you have to adapt only two files for poppler. http://preview.tinyurl.com/yk9uqm7 http://preview.tinyurl.com/yghn92f

Hmm, that sounds interesting, esp. also for xetex, so if all would use that it would be easier ...

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Hahaha, Martin, wasn't it you complaining about them at one of the BachoTeXs?

It's unlikely, but remains possible. :-)

Hmm, that talk about alternatives of pdf libraries ... Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} JAIST, Japan TU Wien, Austria Debian TeX Task Force DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BROUGH SOWERBY One who has been working at that same desk in the same office for fifteen years and has very much his own ideas about why he is continually passed over for promotion. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff