On 2006-04-21 11:43:17 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
Currently, poppler is a nearly drop-in-replacement for xpdf. In the long run, I think it would be better if it would be changed
- to not expose as much internals as xpdf does, but instead
- provide a well-defined API, and
- in the version without any bindings, do this specifically with non-displaying purposes in mind (document parsing, extracting, changing, etc.).
But it seems, since the poppler project was created to merge code accumulated in viewers and maybe printing backends, this is low priority for the people currently involved.
The poppler developers are quite interested, but indeed they have other priorities.
I say that I think this should be changed, although it has a drawback: It would mean that we can't have the same code and still switch between poppler and xpdf. But on the other hand, *if* parsing and extraction is cared for by the poppler people, we might be better of with that than currently with xpdf.
Agreed. Best Martin -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de