Re: Commit: PDF import plugin

Dom Lachowicz wrote:

>Hi Alan,
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>>This is great and should come in handy.
>>Didn't you do something like this before using your
>>own custom code?
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>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.
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>>(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?
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>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.
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>Future plans? I'd like to get images imported and
>maybe respect a few text formatting attributes as best
>we can.
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>Dom
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Would trying to seek interest in PDF->RTF be valid? I don't know how
well RTF supports positioned objects like our Text Boxes/Frames, but if
that isn't in the cards, RTF might be acceptable.

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