Re: PDF Import Plugin

Are you proposing to start from scratch or improve on the existing plugin?

Given that the current plugin builds on the Poppler library and does a
pretty god job of text reconsrtuction, I'd like to better understand
where you would be building

Leonard

On 3/28/08, Muddu kishan <kishan4every1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Summary:
>
> AbiWord has a very basic PDF import plugin. This plugin only gets the
> plain text from a file and not the extravagant functions like page
> number, headings & posters. I propose to build a plugin which will do
> that.
>
> Implementing:
>
> PDF combines Two technologies:
>
>
> * A font-embedding/replacement system to allow fonts to travel with
> the documents.
>
> * A structured storage system to bundle these elements and any
> associated content into a single file, with data compression where
> appropriate.
>
> * Major Challenge lies in Localization. As, Arabic & Chinese Scripts
> are in the Other Way Round. Right To Left.
>
> What will i deliver:
>
> At the end of the project I will deliver a plugin for AbiWord that
> will be able to read PDF files. It will load them and display them and
> at least have interpreted Headings, page numbers, columns. The plugin
> will be a good enough framework. Will Try to load PDFs with
> extravagant functions like links & posters.
>
> Thank You
>
Received on Sun Mar 30 21:55:48 2008