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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY poppler-download-http "http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-&poppler-version;.tar.xz">
8 <!ENTITY poppler-download-ftp " ">
9 <!ENTITY poppler-md5sum "342452b9dfd16f3c9912eb029fe0d4e2">
10 <!ENTITY poppler-size "1.6 MB">
11 <!ENTITY poppler-buildsize "49 MB (with Qt5 library)">
12 <!ENTITY poppler-time "1.3 SBU (with Qt5 library)">
13
14
15 <!ENTITY poppler-data-version "0.4.7">
16
17 <!ENTITY poppler-data-download-http "http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-data-&poppler-data-version;.tar.gz">
18 <!ENTITY poppler-data-md5sum "636a8f2b9f6df9e7ced8ec0946961eaf">
19 <!ENTITY poppler-data-size "4.0 MB">
20 <!ENTITY poppler-data-buildsize "24 MB">
21 <!ENTITY poppler-data-time "less than 0.1 SBU">
22]>
23
24<sect1 id="poppler" xreflabel="Poppler-&poppler-version;">
25 <?dbhtml filename="poppler.html"?>
26
27 <sect1info>
28 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
29 <date>$Date$</date>
30 </sect1info>
31
32 <title>Poppler-&poppler-version;</title>
33
34 <indexterm zone="poppler">
35 <primary sortas="a-Poppler">Poppler</primary>
36 </indexterm>
37
38 <sect2 role="package">
39 <title>Introduction to Poppler</title>
40
41 <para>
42 The <application>Poppler</application> package contains a PDF rendering
43 library and command line tools used to manipulate PDF files. This is
44 useful for providing PDF rendering functionality as a shared library.
45 </para>
46
47 &lfs80_checked;
48
49 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
50 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
51 <listitem>
52 <para>
53 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&poppler-download-http;"/>
54 </para>
55 </listitem>
56 <listitem>
57 <para>
58 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&poppler-download-ftp;"/>
59 </para>
60 </listitem>
61 <listitem>
62 <para>
63 Download MD5 sum: &poppler-md5sum;
64 </para>
65 </listitem>
66 <listitem>
67 <para>
68 Download size: &poppler-size;
69 </para>
70 </listitem>
71 <listitem>
72 <para>
73 Estimated disk space required: &poppler-buildsize;
74 </para>
75 </listitem>
76 <listitem>
77 <para>
78 Estimated build time: &poppler-time;
79 </para>
80 </listitem>
81 </itemizedlist>
82
83 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
84
85 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
86 <title>Poppler Encoding Data</title>
87 <listitem>
88 <para>
89 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&poppler-data-download-http;"/>
90 </para>
91 </listitem>
92 <listitem>
93 <para>
94 Download MD5 sum: &poppler-data-md5sum;
95 </para>
96 </listitem>
97 <listitem>
98 <para>
99 Download size: &poppler-data-size;
100 </para>
101 </listitem>
102 <listitem>
103 <para>
104 Estimated disk space required: &poppler-data-buildsize;
105 </para>
106 </listitem>
107 <listitem>
108 <para>
109 Estimated build time: &poppler-data-time;
110 </para>
111 </listitem>
112 </itemizedlist>
113
114 <para>
115 The additional package consists of encoding files for use with
116 <application>Poppler</application>. The encoding files are optional and
117 <application>Poppler</application> will automatically read them if they
118 are present. When installed, they enable
119 <application>Poppler</application> to render CJK and Cyrillic properly.
120 </para>
121
122 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Poppler Dependencies</bridgehead>
123
124 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
125 <para role="required">
126 <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>
127 </para>
128
129 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
130 <para role="recommended">
131 <xref linkend="cairo"/>,
132 <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
133 <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
134 <xref linkend="nss"/>, and
135 <xref linkend="openjpeg"/>
136 </para>
137
138 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
139 <para role="optional">
140 <xref linkend="curl"/>,
141 <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/>,
142 <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>,
143 <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
144 <xref linkend="lcms"/> or <xref linkend="lcms2"/>,
145 <xref linkend="libtiff"/>,
146 <xref linkend="openjpeg2"/>
147 (preference is for OpenJPEG1, due to regressions with OpenJPEG2), and
148 <xref linkend="qt5"/>
149 </para>
150
151 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
152 User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/poppler"/>
153 </para>
154 </sect2>
155
156 <sect2 role="installation">
157 <title>Installation of Poppler</title>
158
159 <note>
160 <para>
161 This package can be optionally built with support for only one version
162 of Qt4 or Qt5 or without any Qt support. You can selectively disable
163 support for one or both, see "Command Explanations" section, below.
164 </para>
165 </note>
166
167 <para>
168 Install <application>Poppler</application> by running the following
169 commands:
170 </para>
171
172<!-- Note: the sed is needed even if the /usr/lib64 symlink is not present -->
173
174<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
175 --sysconfdir=/etc \
176 --disable-static \
177 --enable-build-type=release \
178 --enable-cmyk \
179 --enable-xpdf-headers \
180 --with-testdatadir=$PWD/testfiles &amp;&amp;
181make</userinput></screen>
182
183 <para>
184 In order to run the test suite, some testcases are needed and can
185 be obtained only from a git repository. The command to download
186 them is:
187<command>git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/test testfiles</command>.
188 Then issue: <command>LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 make check</command>. It seems
189 that only the Qt4/5 libraries are tested.
190 </para>
191
192 <para>
193 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
194 </para>
195
196<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
197
198 <para>
199 To install the documentation, run the following commands as
200 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:
201 </para>
202
203<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/poppler-&poppler-version; &amp;&amp;
204install -v -m644 README* /usr/share/doc/poppler-&poppler-version; &amp;&amp;
205cp -vr glib/reference/html /usr/share/doc/poppler-&poppler-version;</userinput></screen>
206
207<!-- ==== Poppler Data ====== -->
208 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Poppler Data</bridgehead>
209
210 <para>
211 If you downloaded the additional encoding data package, install it by
212 issuing the following commands as the
213 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
214 </para>
215
216<screen><userinput>tar -xf ../poppler-data-&poppler-data-version;.tar.gz &amp;&amp;
217cd poppler-data-&poppler-data-version;</userinput></screen>
218
219 <para>
220 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
221 </para>
222
223<screen role="root"><userinput>make prefix=/usr install</userinput></screen>
224
225 </sect2>
226
227 <sect2 role="commands">
228 <title>Command Explanations</title>
229
230<!--
231 <para>
232 <command>sed ... ltmain.sh</command>: This command removes a lot
233 of irritating invalid warnings.
234 </para>
235 No longer needed with lib64 changes.
236-->
237
238 <para>
239 <parameter>--enable-build-type=release</parameter>: This switch is used
240 to apply a higher level of compiler optimizations. Other options are:
241 [<option>relwithdebinfo/debug/debugfull/profile</option>]
242 </para>
243
244 <para>
245 <parameter>--enable-cmyk</parameter>:
246 Include support for CMYK rasterization.
247 </para>
248
249 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
250 href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>
251
252 <para>
253 <parameter>--enable-xpdf-headers</parameter>: Install some old
254 <application>Xpdf</application> headers required by certain programs (e.g.
255 <application>Okular</application>, <application>LibreOffice</application>
256 and <application>Inkscape</application>).
257 </para>
258
259 <para>
260 <parameter>--with-testdatadir=$PWD/testfiles</parameter>: Tell the test
261 programs where the auxiliary files are located.
262 </para>
263
264 <para>
265 <option>--enable-libcurl</option>: Use libcurl for HTTP support.
266 </para>
267
268 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
269 href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>
270
271 <para>
272 <option>--disable-poppler-qt4</option>: Don't compile poppler Qt4 wrapper.
273 </para>
274
275 <para>
276 <option>--disable-poppler-qt5</option>: Don't compile poppler Qt5 wrapper.
277 </para>
278
279 <para>
280 <command>LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 make check</command>: Run the test suite.
281 The environment variable LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 is only needed if the
282 default locale does not include UTF-8.
283 </para>
284
285 </sect2>
286
287 <sect2 role="content">
288 <title>Contents</title>
289
290 <segmentedlist>
291 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
292 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
293 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
294
295 <seglistitem>
296 <seg>
297 pdfdetach, pdffonts, pdfimages, pdfinfo, pdfseparate, pdfsig,
298 pdftocairo, pdftohtml, pdftoppm, pdftops, pdftotext,
299 pdfunite, and poppler-glib-demo
300 </seg>
301 <seg>
302 libpoppler.so,
303 libpoppler-cpp.so,
304 libpoppler-glib.so, and
305 libpoppler-qt5.so
306 </seg>
307 <seg>
308 /usr/{include,share,share/gtk-doc/html}/poppler and
309 /usr/share/doc/poppler-&poppler-version;
310 </seg>
311 </seglistitem>
312 </segmentedlist>
313
314 <variablelist>
315 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
316 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
317 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
318
319 <varlistentry id="pdfdetach">
320 <term><command>pdfdetach</command></term>
321 <listitem>
322 <para>
323 lists or extracts embedded files from PDF files.
324 </para>
325 <indexterm zone="poppler pdfdetach">
326 <primary sortas="b-pdfdetach">pdfdetach</primary>
327 </indexterm>
328 </listitem>
329 </varlistentry>
330
331 <varlistentry id="pdffonts">
332 <term><command>pdffonts</command></term>
333 <listitem>
334 <para>
335 lists the fonts used in a PDF file along with various information
336 for each font.
337 </para>
338 <indexterm zone="poppler pdffonts">
339 <primary sortas="b-pdffonts">pdffonts</primary>
340 </indexterm>
341 </listitem>
342 </varlistentry>
343
344 <varlistentry id="pdfimages">
345 <term><command>pdfimages</command></term>
346 <listitem>
347 <para>
348 saves images from a PDF file as PPM, PBM, or JPEG files.
349 </para>
350 <indexterm zone="poppler pdfimages">
351 <primary sortas="b-pdfimages">pdfimages</primary>
352 </indexterm>
353 </listitem>
354 </varlistentry>
355
356 <varlistentry id="pdfinfo">
357 <term><command>pdfinfo</command></term>
358 <listitem>
359 <para>
360 prints the contents of the 'Info' dictionary (plus some other useful
361 information) from a PDF file.
362 </para>
363 <indexterm zone="poppler pdfinfo">
364 <primary sortas="b-pdfinfo">pdfinfo</primary>
365 </indexterm>
366 </listitem>
367 </varlistentry>
368
369 <varlistentry id="pdfseparate">
370 <term><command>pdfseparate</command></term>
371 <listitem>
372 <para>
373 extracts single pages from a PDF file.
374 </para>
375 <indexterm zone="poppler pdfseparate">
376 <primary sortas="b-pdseparate">pdfseparate</primary>
377 </indexterm>
378 </listitem>
379 </varlistentry>
380
381 <varlistentry id="pdfsig">
382 <term><command>pdfsig</command></term>
383 <listitem>
384 <para>
385 verifies the digital signatures in a PDF document.
386 </para>
387 <indexterm zone="poppler pdfsig">
388 <primary sortas="b-pdseparate">pdfsig</primary>
389 </indexterm>
390 </listitem>
391 </varlistentry>
392
393 <varlistentry id="pdftocairo">
394 <term><command>pdftocairo</command></term>
395 <listitem>
396 <para>
397 converts a PDF file to one of several formats (PNG, JPEG, PDF, PS,
398 EPS, SVG) using the cairo output device of the poppler library.
399 </para>
400 <indexterm zone="poppler pdftocairo">
401 <primary sortas="b-pdftocairo">pdftocairo</primary>
402 </indexterm>
403 </listitem>
404 </varlistentry>
405
406 <varlistentry id="pdftohtml">
407 <term><command>pdftohtml</command></term>
408 <listitem>
409 <para>
410 converts a PDF file to HTML.
411 </para>
412 <indexterm zone="poppler pdftohtml">
413 <primary sortas="b-pdftohtml">pdftohtml</primary>
414 </indexterm>
415 </listitem>
416 </varlistentry>
417
418 <varlistentry id="pdftoppm">
419 <term><command>pdftoppm</command></term>
420 <listitem>
421 <para>
422 converts PDF files to PBM, PGM and PPM formats.
423 </para>
424 <indexterm zone="poppler pdftoppm">
425 <primary sortas="b-pdftoppm">pdftoppm</primary>
426 </indexterm>
427 </listitem>
428 </varlistentry>
429
430 <varlistentry id="pdftops">
431 <term><command>pdftops</command></term>
432 <listitem>
433 <para>
434 converts PDF files to Postscript format.
435 </para>
436 <indexterm zone="poppler pdftops">
437 <primary sortas="b-pdftops">pdftops</primary>
438 </indexterm>
439 </listitem>
440 </varlistentry>
441
442 <varlistentry id="pdftotext">
443 <term><command>pdftotext</command></term>
444 <listitem>
445 <para>
446 converts PDF files to plain text.
447 </para>
448 <indexterm zone="poppler pdftotext">
449 <primary sortas="b-pdftotext">pdftotext</primary>
450 </indexterm>
451 </listitem>
452 </varlistentry>
453
454 <varlistentry id="pdfunite">
455 <term><command>pdfunite</command></term>
456 <listitem>
457 <para>
458 merges several PDF files, in the order of their occurrence on the
459 command line, to one PDF output file.
460 </para>
461 <indexterm zone="poppler pdfunite">
462 <primary sortas="b-pdfunite">pdfunite</primary>
463 </indexterm>
464 </listitem>
465 </varlistentry>
466
467 <varlistentry id="poppler-glib-demo">
468 <term><command>poppler-glib-demo</command></term>
469 <listitem>
470 <para>
471 is a tool to demonstrate the API, and for use when debugging and
472 testing <application>Poppler</application>.
473 </para>
474 <indexterm zone="poppler poppler-glib-demo">
475 <primary sortas="b-poppler-glib-demo">poppler-glib-demo</primary>
476 </indexterm>
477 </listitem>
478 </varlistentry>
479
480 <varlistentry id="libpoppler">
481 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpoppler.so</filename></term>
482 <listitem>
483 <para>
484 contains the API functions to render PDF files.
485 </para>
486 <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler">
487 <primary sortas="c-libpoppler">libpoppler.so</primary>
488 </indexterm>
489 </listitem>
490 </varlistentry>
491
492 <varlistentry id="libpoppler-cpp">
493 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpoppler-cpp.so</filename></term>
494 <listitem>
495 <para>
496 is a C++ backend for rendering PDF files.
497 </para>
498 <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler-cpp">
499 <primary sortas="c-libpoppler-cpp">libpoppler-cpp.so</primary>
500 </indexterm>
501 </listitem>
502 </varlistentry>
503
504 <varlistentry id="libpoppler-glib">
505 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpoppler-glib.so</filename></term>
506 <listitem>
507 <para>
508 is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering functions
509 with <application>GTK+</application>.
510 </para>
511 <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler-glib">
512 <primary sortas="c-libpoppler-glib">libpoppler-glib.so</primary>
513 </indexterm>
514 </listitem>
515 </varlistentry>
516
517<!--
518 <varlistentry id="libpoppler-qt4">
519 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpoppler-qt4.so</filename></term>
520 <listitem>
521 <para>
522 is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering functions
523 with <application>Qt</application>4.
524 </para>
525 <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler-qt4">
526 <primary sortas="c-libpoppler-qt4">libpoppler-qt4.so</primary>
527 </indexterm>
528 </listitem>
529 </varlistentry>
530-->
531
532 <varlistentry id="libpoppler-qt5">
533 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpoppler-qt5.so</filename></term>
534 <listitem>
535 <para>
536 is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering functions
537 with <application>Qt</application>5.
538 </para>
539 <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler-qt5">
540 <primary sortas="c-libpoppler-qt5">libpoppler-qt5.so</primary>
541 </indexterm>
542 </listitem>
543 </varlistentry>
544
545 </variablelist>
546
547 </sect2>
548
549</sect1>
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