Re: [Podofo-users] podofo vs. libpoppler: What should a pdf-parsing application use?

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2007/2/13, Craig Ringer <cr...@po...>:
> I'd be rather interested in your thoughts on the in-progress enhanced
> qt4 version in svn trunk, then.

Currently I can't compile trunk easily due to a lack of cmake; I'm
still using SUSE 10.1. I hope that this will work in 10.2.

> Speaking of your XPdf code ... it sounds like you support including a
> PDF as an image resource in another PDF. The only other app I know of
> off the top of my head that does this (well) is QuarkXPress 7.
>
> I was wondering if there's any chance of a quick overview of how you do
> that in PdfTeX. It's something I'm *extremely* interested in supporting
> in PoDoFo once we have a content stream parser, and the more ideas I get
> and the more approaches to the issue I hear about the better.

Image? We just include a pdf page as a form xobject.
See write_epdf in
http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdftoepdf.cc?revision=2959&view=markup

Best
   Martin