source: general/graphlib/poppler.xml@ 420c072

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY poppler-download-http
           "http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-&poppler-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY poppler-download-ftp       " ">
  <!ENTITY poppler-md5sum             "e58cdddfc7dc01f00bf7394e0e4f21ce">
  <!ENTITY poppler-size               "1.6 MB">
  <!ENTITY poppler-buildsize          "145 MB (building Qt4 and Qt5 libraries, additional 46 MB for the test suite and 24 MB for poppler-data)">
  <!ENTITY poppler-time               "1.7 SBU (building Qt4 and Qt5 libraries, additional 0.2 SBU for the test suite for each Qt)">

  <!ENTITY poppler-data-version       "0.4.7">

  <!ENTITY poppler-data-download-http
           "http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-data-&poppler-data-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY poppler-data-md5sum        "636a8f2b9f6df9e7ced8ec0946961eaf">
  <!ENTITY poppler-data-size          "4.0 MB">
]>

<sect1 id="poppler" xreflabel="Poppler-&poppler-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="poppler.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Poppler-&poppler-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="poppler">
    <primary sortas="a-Poppler">Poppler</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Poppler</title>

    <para>
      The <application>Poppler</application> package contains a PDF rendering
      library and command line tools used to manipulate PDF files. This is
      useful for providing PDF rendering functionality as a shared library.
    </para>

    &lfs75_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&poppler-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&poppler-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &poppler-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &poppler-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &poppler-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &poppler-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>

    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <title>Poppler Encoding Data</title>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&poppler-data-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &poppler-data-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &poppler-data-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <para>
      The additional package consists of encoding files for use with
      <application>Poppler</application>. The encoding files are optional and
      <application>Poppler</application> will automatically read them if they
      are present. When installed, they enable
      <application>Poppler</application> to render CJK and Cyrillic properly.
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Poppler Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="cairo"/>,
      <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>, and
      <xref linkend="libpng"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="curl"/>,
      <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/>,
      <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
      <xref linkend="lcms"/> or <xref linkend="lcms2"/>,
      <xref linkend="libtiff"/>,
      <xref linkend="openjpeg"/>,
      <xref linkend="qt4"/> (the <filename>libpoppler-qt4.so</filename> library
      is needed for PDF support in <application>Okular</application>), and
      <xref linkend="qt5"/>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/poppler"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Poppler</title>

    <para>
      In order to optionally run the test suite, additional download of about
      9 MB, using <xref linkend="git"/>, is necessary. Make sure that you do
      not have the directory ../test.
    </para>

<screen><userinput>git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/test ../test</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      If you are not building both  <application>Qt</application> libraries,
      jump to the following paragraph. In order to build both
      <application>Qt4</application> and <application>Qt5</application>
      libraries, you need to run the install commands twice, because although
      both are detected, only wrapper for the first
      <application>Qt</application> version in PATH is built. Either can be
      built first, but to facilitate the explanation, we choose first the
      <application>Qt4</application> library. You can do this using
      <command>source setqt4</command> (script from <xref linkend="qt4"/>).
    </para>

    <para>
      Install <application>Poppler</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<!-- Warning: Using zlib is not totally safe -->
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --disable-static  \
            --enable-xpdf-headers &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      If you are not building both <application>Qt</application> libraries,
      jump to the following paragraph. If you want to build both
      <application>Qt</application> libraries, first switch back to
      unpriviledged user, run <command>source setqt5</command>, from
      <xref linkend="qt5"/>, and repeat the instructions from configuration
      until install. After that, proceed to install the documents until the end.
    </para>

    <para>
      The documents are installed using the following commands:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m755 -d      /usr/share/doc/poppler-&poppler-version; &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 README* /usr/share/doc/poppler-&poppler-version;</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      If you downloaded the additional encoding data package, install it by
      issuing the following commands as the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>tar -xf ../poppler-data-&poppler-data-version;.tar.gz &amp;&amp;
cd poppler-data-&poppler-data-version;</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make prefix=/usr install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>

    <para>
      <option>--enable-xpdf-headers</option>: Install some old
      <application>Xpdf</application> headers required by certain programs (e.g.
      <application>Okular</application>, <application>LibreOffice</application>
      and <application>Inkscape</application>).
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--enable-libcurl</option>: Use libcurl for HTTP support.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          pdfdetach, pdffonts, pdfimages, pdfinfo, pdfseparate,
          pdftocairo, pdftohtml, pdftoppm, pdftops, pdftotext,
          pdfunite, and poppler-glib-demo
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libpoppler.so, libpoppler-cpp.so,
          libpoppler-glib.so,
          libpoppler-qt4.so, and
          libpoppler-qt5.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/include/poppler,
          /usr/share/doc/poppler-&poppler-version;,
          /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/poppler, and
          /usr/share/poppler
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="pdfdetach">
        <term><command>pdfdetach</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            lists or extracts embedded files from PDF files.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="poppler pdfdetach">
            <primary sortas="b-pdfdetach">pdfdetach</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pdffonts">
        <term><command>pdffonts</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            lists the fonts used in a PDF file along with various information
            for each font.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="poppler pdffonts">
            <primary sortas="b-pdffonts">pdffonts</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pdfimages">
        <term><command>pdfimages</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            saves images from a PDF file as PPM, PBM, or JPEG files.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="poppler pdfimages">
            <primary sortas="b-pdfimages">pdfimages</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pdfinfo">
        <term><command>pdfinfo</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            prints the contents of the 'Info' dictionary (plus some other useful
            information) from a PDF file.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="poppler pdfinfo">
            <primary sortas="b-pdfinfo">pdfinfo</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pdfseparate">
        <term><command>pdfseparate</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            extracts single pages from a PDF file.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="poppler pdfseparate">
            <primary sortas="b-pdseparate">pdfseparate</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pdftocairo">
        <term><command>pdftocairo</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            converts a PDF file to one of several formats (PNG, JPEG, PDF, PS,
            EPS, SVG) using the cairo output device of the poppler library.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="poppler pdftocairo">
            <primary sortas="b-pdftocairo">pdftocairo</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pdftohtml">
        <term><command>pdftohtml</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            converts a PDF file to HTML.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="poppler pdftohtml">
            <primary sortas="b-pdftohtml">pdftohtml</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pdftoppm">
        <term><command>pdftoppm</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            converts PDF files to PBM, PGM and PPM formats.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="poppler pdftoppm">
            <primary sortas="b-pdftoppm">pdftoppm</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pdftops">
        <term><command>pdftops</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            converts PDF files to Postscript format.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="poppler pdftops">
            <primary sortas="b-pdftops">pdftops</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pdftotext">
        <term><command>pdftotext</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            converts PDF files to plain text.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="poppler pdftotext">
            <primary sortas="b-pdftotext">pdftotext</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pdfunite">
        <term><command>pdfunite</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            merges several PDF files, in the order of their occurrence on the
            command line, to one PDF output file.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="poppler pdfunite">
            <primary sortas="b-pdfunite">pdfunite</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="poppler-glib-demo">
        <term><command>poppler-glib-demo</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a tool to demonstrate the API, and for use when debugging and
            testing <application>Poppler</application>.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="poppler poppler-glib-demo">
            <primary sortas="b-poppler-glib-demo">poppler-glib-demo</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libpoppler">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpoppler.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains the API functions to render PDF files.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler">
            <primary sortas="c-libpoppler">libpoppler.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libpoppler-cpp">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpoppler-cpp.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a C++ backend for rendering PDF files.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler-cpp">
            <primary sortas="c-libpoppler-cpp">libpoppler-cpp.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libpoppler-glib">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpoppler-glib.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering functions
            with <application>GTK+</application>.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler-glib">
            <primary sortas="c-libpoppler-glib">libpoppler-glib.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libpoppler-qt4">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpoppler-qt4.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering functions
            with <application>Qt</application>4.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler-qt4">
            <primary sortas="c-libpoppler-qt4">libpoppler-qt4.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libpoppler-qt5">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpoppler-qt5.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering functions
            with <application>Qt</application>5.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler-qt5">
            <primary sortas="c-libpoppler-qt5">libpoppler-qt5.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>