March 07, 2005

Poppler -- PDF rendering library

Poppler 是個專注於 PDF rendering 的 library，以 xpdf 3.0 為基礎，加入許多修正，並且可以提供給許多需要 PDF viewing 的應用程式使用，目前已經進駐 FreeDesktop.org。

至於這個專案的發起想法，可以參考作者 Albert Astals Cid 的 blog [Poppler]，以下節錄部份內文：
    You may have noticed that recently xpdf source code has had some code auditing and some problems where found in it. And you may have noticed that meant lots of new releases, xpdf, gpdf, kpdf, koffice, cups, evince, latex(IIRC) and some more, why? you may ask. Because xpdf has not a shared lib so all the projects that want to use xpdf code have to include it in their sources. That obviously sucks for many reasons, a shared lib will be obviously better. That is where poppler comes in.
透過 poppler 這個獨立的 PDF rendering library，更多的軟體將因此受益，而且可以有更好的發展模式，也希望能夠藉此讓 open source'd PDF rendering 有蓬勃的發展。
由 jserv 發表於 March 7, 2005 12:40 PM
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現在新版的 evince 也改用 poppler 了
顯示結果跟 xpdf 一樣！

由 d2207197 發表於 March 12, 2005 04:26 PM