Re: Summer of Code Hello

On 5/29/06, Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, it sort of is. But the current plugin simply calls poppler to
> > export the pdf as a temp text file and then loads it using ie_imp_text
> > so I don't think there will be much left of it.
> >
> A good place to start then, if you've already got something based on Poppler, is to
> use the new HTML export capabilities that were added there a few months ago. It
> supports limited font, style and color extraction as well as links and such. Since Abi has
> some basic HTML import, you could bring it in that way - or look at leverage the same
> underlying "Output Device" to bring in RTF directly to Abi.

thanks, I'm checking them out.
I was thinking of maybe writing the plugin as it's own outputdev that
would add data to the piecetable through the outputdev hook functions
and then work it's magic on the piecetable itself, but I'm not sure
yet.
>
>
> Leonard
> Who also kibbitz's with the Poppler folks
> And has WAY too much experience with PDF ;)
I'm always interested to deliver you from any excess experience :P

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greetings,
     Jauco Noordzij