Re: Commit: PDF import plugin

Hi Alan,

> This is great and should come in handy.
> Didn't you do something like this before using your
> own custom code?

Back when I worked at my favoritest job on the planet,
Appligent, I wrote a PDF import and export plugin that
used Appligent's proprietary software, and as such,
couldn't be distributed. The export worked really
well, but the import needed a lot of love.
 
> (I have vague recollections of being able to cut and
> paste quite rich
> markup out of the Adobe PDF viewer). Do you have any
> future plans for
> this? basic image import? richer text markup? Will
> it remain intentionally
> limited to plaintext import? Is that a question
> better directed at the
> maintainers of pdftotext?

So, XPDF (and now Poppler) has a concept of a thing
called an "Output Device". XPDF has a bunch of these -
one that draws to the screen using X11, one that
creates a Postscript version of the PDF, one that
converts the PDF into text, ... Right now, I'm
piggy-backing on top of the PDF->Text one.

Future plans? I'd like to get images imported and
maybe respect a few text formatting attributes as best
we can.
 
Dom

                
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Received on Thu Mar 17 21:54:35 2005