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Re: [trinity-devel] kpdf/xpdf

From: Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:21:23 -0400
On 17 August 2012 16:19, Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> wrote:
>> It's definitely building xpdf from the GIT tree. We need to
>> apply all patches or pull the latest xpdf code. Note the numerous deprecation
>> warnings associated with xpdf as well:
>
> The primary issue then would seem to be that the internal Trinity xpdf is not being updated with security patches.
>
>> The CMake files could probably be changed to use xpdf
>> libraries instead of the statically built xpdf libraries from the GIT tree. Well
>> above my coding grade.
>
> Likewise.
>
> I'll write Yet Another Bug Report. Or two.
>
> Darrell
>
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I would say instead file a bug report requesting that we port to
poppler. That's what everyone else uses (and has for quite some time)
and is designed specifically as a library instead of including xpdf