source: general/graphlib/poppler.xml@ 57b9d270

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY poppler-download-http "http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-&poppler-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY poppler-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY poppler-md5sum        "4155346f9369b192569ce9184ff73e43">
  <!ENTITY poppler-size          "1.6 MB">
  <!ENTITY poppler-buildsize     "65 MB (without Qt, additional 25 MB to install the encoding data)">
  <!ENTITY poppler-time          "1.3 SBU (includes building with all dependencies except Qt)">

  <!ENTITY poppler-data-version  "0.4.0">
]>

<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>

    &lfs65_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">
      <listitem>
        <para>Poppler Encoding Data: <ulink
        url="http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-data-&poppler-data-version;.tar.gz"/></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="pkgconfig"/> and -->
    <xref linkend="fontconfig"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended"><xref linkend="libjpeg"/>, <xref linkend="cairo"/>,
    <xref linkend="glib2"/>, and <ulink url="http://www.openjpeg.org">OpenJPEG</ulink>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="gtk2"/>, <xref linkend="qt"/>, and
    <xref linkend="qt4"/></para>

    <para>If you're installing <application>Poppler</application> to support
    <xref linkend="kdegraphics"/>, you will need to have <xref linkend="qt"/>
    installed so that the <filename class='libraryfile'>libpoppler-qt</filename>
    library is built.</para>

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

  </sect2>

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

    <caution>
      <para><application>Poppler</application> will overwrite command-line
      utilities and man pages previously installed by the
      <application>Xpdf</application> package. If you prefer to keep the
      <application>Xpdf</application> versions of these files, pass the
      <option>--disable-utils</option> parameter to the
      <command>configure</command> command below.</para>
    </caution>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

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

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
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:</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>

    <!-- This is discouraged by the authors. There is built-in decompression
         and zlib is not needed
    <para><parameter>-enable-zlib</parameter>: This parameter forces the build
    to link with the system-installed 
    <filename class='libraryfile'>libz</filename> library to enable compressed
    PDF functionality.</para> -->

    <para><parameter>--disable-cairo-output</parameter>: This parameter
    disables building the <application>cairo</application> graphics backend.</para>

    <para><parameter>--disable-poppler-glib</parameter> and
    <parameter>--disable-gtk-test</parameter>: These parameters disable
    building the <application>GLib</application> wrapper and
    <application>GTK+</application> test program.</para>

    <para><parameter>--disable-static</parameter>: Prevent static libraries
    being built and installed.</para>

    <para><parameter>--enable-xpdf-headers</parameter>: Install old 
    <application>Xpdf</application> headers required by certain programs. These 
    are unsupported by <application>Poppler</application>.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring Poppler</title>

    <sect3 id="poppler-config">
      <title>Config Files</title>
      <para><filename>/etc/xpdfrc</filename></para>

      <indexterm zone="poppler poppler-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-xpdfrc">/etc/xpdfrc</primary>
      </indexterm>
    </sect3>

  </sect2>

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

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

      <seglistitem>
        <seg><xref linkend="xpdf-content"/></seg>
        <seg>libpoppler.{so,a}, libpoppler-glib.{so,a}, libpoppler-qt.{so,a} 
        and libpoppler-qt4.{so,a}</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="libpoppler">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpoppler.{so,a}</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>contains the API functions to render PDF files.</para>
          <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler">
            <primary sortas="c-libpoppler">libpoppler.{so,a}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libpoppler-glib">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpoppler-glib.{so,a}</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,a}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

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

      <varlistentry id="libpoppler-qt4">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpoppler-qt4.{so,a}</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,a}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>