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Re: [trinity-devel] kpdf/xpdf

From: Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:37:27 -0400
On 17 August 2012 17:34, Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@...> wrote:
>> On 17 August 2012 17:14, Timothy Pearson <kb9vqf@...>
>> wrote:
>>>> On 08/17/2012 03:21 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote:
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't think we can right now. All poppler-qt3 code was dropped from
>>>> poppler,
>>>> so you can't even build poppler-qt3 anymore. (may not be a total
>>>> limitation, but
>>>> that limitation is there...)
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>>>
>>> Not a problem, we have and maintain poppler-tqt3 (in tdegraphics IIRC).
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
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>> Or if need be Qt4 integration would resolve that problem anyway.
>>
>> Calvin
>
> We want to keep Qt4 out of the core, as Qt4 still suffers from a
> performance hit on non-graphics-accelerated and embedded/low power
> systems.
>
> Tim
>
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Ok understood - Either way poppler is a good idea. We only use poppler
now for afaik the previews for konqueror and other small things,
nothing full fledged.

Cal