RE: Commit: PDF import plugin

From: Dom Lachowicz <domlachowicz_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri Mar 18 2005 - 15:09:36 CET

> Might be easier and quicker to leverage the work at
> <http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/> to get PDF->HTML
> (which Abi can also
> import) into Poppler and then into our plugin.
>
> NOTE: the above work at SF is built against and
> older version of
> Xpdf than Poppler uses and would need some care and
> feeding. But it
> wouldn't be extremely difficult.

It's probably worth forward-porting it to Poppler and
could be useful. Abi isn't really good at importing
HTML, and this will be even harder since it uses
absolute positioned <div>s, which are not something
that we're ever likely to support.

Best,
Dom

                
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Received on Fri Mar 18 15:23:53 2005

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