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

[Leonard R. <leo...@pd...>]

On Feb 12, 2007, at 11:38 PM, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Thanks. That seems pretty sane, and is the general way I was  
> thinking of
> doing it in Scribus originally (before I jumped on board with  
> PoDoFo). I
> just wasn't sure how to handle some of the specifics. If you're happy
> with how the form xobject approach works that's what I'm inclined to
> implement for PoDoFo.
>
	That's the same approach used by everybody else - so yes, go for it!

	Only thing to remember, that might not be apparent, is to merge the  
streams.  A Form XObject can only have a single content stream but a  
page can have an array of them - so you need to merge any arrays into  
a single streams AND remember to put a single whitespace char between  
each stream ;).


> Guys, how does
>      PdfObject* PdfDocument::CopyPageAsForm(const PdfPage*)
> sound? It'd deep copy all resources to the new document (renumbering
> indirect objects in the process), update references in the copied
> objects, and generate a form object for the copied page.
>

	Sounds good to me.


Leonard