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Re: [trinity-devel] kpdf/xpdf

From: "E. Liddell" <ejlddll@...>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:37:50 -0400
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 11:05:04 -0700 (PDT)
Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> wrote:

> If I understand correctly, kpdf uses xpdf as a base rendering engine. The xpdf code in the Trinity source tree uses 3.02 from February 2007, which has been patched for security reasons several times since then.
> 
> There also is a patch to improve a scrolling speed bug that is caused by more recent gcc versions.
> 
> The most recent version of xpdf is 3.03.
> 
> Many distros have these patches applied or use 3.03.

I attached a Gentoo xpdf upgrade patch from late 2009 to the first bug report.
Does anyone have anything better?