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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 "https://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-&poppler-version;.tar.xz">
8 <!ENTITY poppler-download-ftp " ">
9 <!ENTITY poppler-md5sum "bc5a191741604552c90d484103229374">
10 <!ENTITY poppler-size "1.6 MB">
11 <!ENTITY poppler-buildsize "50 MB (with Qt5 library)">
12 <!ENTITY poppler-time "1.3 SBU (with Qt5 library)">
13
14
15 <!ENTITY poppler-data-version "0.4.8">
16
17 <!ENTITY poppler-data-download-http "https://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-data-&poppler-data-version;.tar.gz">
18 <!ENTITY poppler-data-md5sum "00f8989c804de84af0ba2ea629949980">
19 <!ENTITY poppler-data-size "4.1 MB">
20 <!ENTITY poppler-data-buildsize "13 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 &gcc7_checked;
49
50 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
51 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
52 <listitem>
53 <para>
54 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&poppler-download-http;"/>
55 </para>
56 </listitem>
57 <listitem>
58 <para>
59 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&poppler-download-ftp;"/>
60 </para>
61 </listitem>
62 <listitem>
63 <para>
64 Download MD5 sum: &poppler-md5sum;
65 </para>
66 </listitem>
67 <listitem>
68 <para>
69 Download size: &poppler-size;
70 </para>
71 </listitem>
72 <listitem>
73 <para>
74 Estimated disk space required: &poppler-buildsize;
75 </para>
76 </listitem>
77 <listitem>
78 <para>
79 Estimated build time: &poppler-time;
80 </para>
81 </listitem>
82 </itemizedlist>
83
84 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
85
86 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
87 <title>Poppler Encoding Data</title>
88 <listitem>
89 <para>
90 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&poppler-data-download-http;"/>
91 </para>
92 </listitem>
93 <listitem>
94 <para>
95 Download MD5 sum: &poppler-data-md5sum;
96 </para>
97 </listitem>
98 <listitem>
99 <para>
100 Download size: &poppler-data-size;
101 </para>
102 </listitem>
103 <listitem>
104 <para>
105 Estimated disk space required: &poppler-data-buildsize;
106 </para>
107 </listitem>
108 <listitem>
109 <para>
110 Estimated build time: &poppler-data-time;
111 </para>
112 </listitem>
113 </itemizedlist>
114
115 <para>
116 The additional package consists of encoding files for use with
117 <application>Poppler</application>. The encoding files are optional and
118 <application>Poppler</application> will automatically read them if they
119 are present. When installed, they enable
120 <application>Poppler</application> to render CJK and Cyrillic properly.
121 </para>
122
123 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Poppler Dependencies</bridgehead>
124
125 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
126 <para role="required">
127 <xref linkend="fontconfig"/>
128 </para>
129
130 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
131 <para role="recommended">
132 <xref linkend="cairo"/>,
133 <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
134 <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
135 <xref linkend="nss"/>, and
136 <xref linkend="openjpeg"/>
137 </para>
138
139 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
140 <para role="optional">
141 <xref linkend="curl"/>,
142 <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/>,
143 <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>,
144 <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
145 <xref linkend="lcms"/> or <xref linkend="lcms2"/>,
146 <xref linkend="libtiff"/>,
147 <xref linkend="openjpeg2"/>
148 (preference is for OpenJPEG1, due to regressions with OpenJPEG2), and
149 <xref linkend="qt5"/>
150 (required for PDF support in <xref linkend="okular5"/>)
151 </para>
152
153 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
154 User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/poppler"/>
155 </para>
156 </sect2>
157
158 <sect2 role="installation">
159 <title>Installation of Poppler</title>
160
161 <para>
162 Install <application>Poppler</application> by running the following
163 commands:
164 </para>
165
166<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
167 --sysconfdir=/etc \
168 --disable-static \
169 --enable-build-type=release \
170 --enable-cmyk \
171 --enable-xpdf-headers \
172 --with-testdatadir=$PWD/testfiles &amp;&amp;
173make</userinput></screen>
174
175 <para>
176 In order to run the test suite, some testcases are needed and can
177 be obtained only from a git repository. The command to download
178 them is:
179<command>git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/test testfiles</command>.
180 Then issue: <command>LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 make check</command>. It seems
181 that only the Qt4/5 libraries are tested.
182 </para>
183
184 <para>
185 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
186 </para>
187
188<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
189
190 <para>
191 To install the documentation, run the following commands as
192 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:
193 </para>
194
195<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/poppler-&poppler-version; &amp;&amp;
196install -v -m644 README* /usr/share/doc/poppler-&poppler-version; &amp;&amp;
197cp -vr glib/reference/html /usr/share/doc/poppler-&poppler-version;</userinput></screen>
198
199<!-- ==== Poppler Data ====== -->
200 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Poppler Data</bridgehead>
201
202 <para>
203 If you downloaded the additional encoding data package, install it by
204 issuing the following commands:
205 </para>
206
207<screen><userinput>tar -xf ../poppler-data-&poppler-data-version;.tar.gz &amp;&amp;
208cd poppler-data-&poppler-data-version;</userinput></screen>
209
210 <para>
211 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
212 </para>
213
214<screen role="root"><userinput>make prefix=/usr install</userinput></screen>
215
216 </sect2>
217
218 <sect2 role="commands">
219 <title>Command Explanations</title>
220
221 <para>
222 <parameter>--enable-build-type=release</parameter>: This switch is used
223 to apply a higher level of compiler optimizations. Other options are:
224 [<option>relwithdebinfo/debug/debugfull/profile</option>]
225 </para>
226
227 <para>
228 <parameter>--enable-cmyk</parameter>:
229 Include support for CMYK rasterization.
230 </para>
231
232 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
233 href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>
234
235 <para>
236 <parameter>--enable-xpdf-headers</parameter>: Install some old
237 <application>Xpdf</application> headers required by certain programs (e.g.
238 <application>Okular</application>, <application>LibreOffice</application>
239 and <application>Inkscape</application>).
240 </para>
241
242 <para>
243 <parameter>--with-testdatadir=$PWD/testfiles</parameter>: Tell the test
244 programs where the auxiliary files are located.
245 </para>
246
247 <para>
248 <option>--enable-libcurl</option>: Use libcurl for HTTP support.
249 </para>
250
251 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
252 href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>
253
254 <para>
255 <option>--disable-poppler-qt5</option>: Don't compile poppler Qt5 wrapper,
256 when Qt5 is installed. Note that Qt5 support is required for PDF support
257 in <xref linkend="okular5"/>.
258 </para>
259
260 <para>
261 <command>LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 make check</command>: Run the test suite.
262 The environment variable LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 is only needed if the
263 default locale does not include UTF-8.
264 </para>
265
266 </sect2>
267
268 <sect2 role="content">
269 <title>Contents</title>
270
271 <segmentedlist>
272 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
273 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
274 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
275
276 <seglistitem>
277 <seg>
278 pdfdetach, pdffonts, pdfimages, pdfinfo, pdfseparate, pdfsig,
279 pdftocairo, pdftohtml, pdftoppm, pdftops, pdftotext,
280 pdfunite, and poppler-glib-demo
281 </seg>
282 <seg>
283 libpoppler.so,
284 libpoppler-cpp.so,
285 libpoppler-glib.so, and
286 libpoppler-qt5.so
287 </seg>
288 <seg>
289 /usr/{include,share,share/gtk-doc/html}/poppler and
290 /usr/share/doc/poppler-&poppler-version;
291 </seg>
292 </seglistitem>
293 </segmentedlist>
294
295 <variablelist>
296 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
297 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
298 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
299
300 <varlistentry id="pdfdetach">
301 <term><command>pdfdetach</command></term>
302 <listitem>
303 <para>
304 lists or extracts embedded files from PDF files.
305 </para>
306 <indexterm zone="poppler pdfdetach">
307 <primary sortas="b-pdfdetach">pdfdetach</primary>
308 </indexterm>
309 </listitem>
310 </varlistentry>
311
312 <varlistentry id="pdffonts">
313 <term><command>pdffonts</command></term>
314 <listitem>
315 <para>
316 lists the fonts used in a PDF file along with various information
317 for each font.
318 </para>
319 <indexterm zone="poppler pdffonts">
320 <primary sortas="b-pdffonts">pdffonts</primary>
321 </indexterm>
322 </listitem>
323 </varlistentry>
324
325 <varlistentry id="pdfimages">
326 <term><command>pdfimages</command></term>
327 <listitem>
328 <para>
329 saves images from a PDF file as PPM, PBM, or JPEG files.
330 </para>
331 <indexterm zone="poppler pdfimages">
332 <primary sortas="b-pdfimages">pdfimages</primary>
333 </indexterm>
334 </listitem>
335 </varlistentry>
336
337 <varlistentry id="pdfinfo">
338 <term><command>pdfinfo</command></term>
339 <listitem>
340 <para>
341 prints the contents of the 'Info' dictionary (plus some other useful
342 information) from a PDF file.
343 </para>
344 <indexterm zone="poppler pdfinfo">
345 <primary sortas="b-pdfinfo">pdfinfo</primary>
346 </indexterm>
347 </listitem>
348 </varlistentry>
349
350 <varlistentry id="pdfseparate">
351 <term><command>pdfseparate</command></term>
352 <listitem>
353 <para>
354 extracts single pages from a PDF file.
355 </para>
356 <indexterm zone="poppler pdfseparate">
357 <primary sortas="b-pdseparate">pdfseparate</primary>
358 </indexterm>
359 </listitem>
360 </varlistentry>
361
362 <varlistentry id="pdfsig">
363 <term><command>pdfsig</command></term>
364 <listitem>
365 <para>
366 verifies the digital signatures in a PDF document.
367 </para>
368 <indexterm zone="poppler pdfsig">
369 <primary sortas="b-pdseparate">pdfsig</primary>
370 </indexterm>
371 </listitem>
372 </varlistentry>
373
374 <varlistentry id="pdftocairo">
375 <term><command>pdftocairo</command></term>
376 <listitem>
377 <para>
378 converts a PDF file to one of several formats (PNG, JPEG, PDF, PS,
379 EPS, SVG) using the cairo output device of the poppler library.
380 </para>
381 <indexterm zone="poppler pdftocairo">
382 <primary sortas="b-pdftocairo">pdftocairo</primary>
383 </indexterm>
384 </listitem>
385 </varlistentry>
386
387 <varlistentry id="pdftohtml">
388 <term><command>pdftohtml</command></term>
389 <listitem>
390 <para>
391 converts a PDF file to HTML.
392 </para>
393 <indexterm zone="poppler pdftohtml">
394 <primary sortas="b-pdftohtml">pdftohtml</primary>
395 </indexterm>
396 </listitem>
397 </varlistentry>
398
399 <varlistentry id="pdftoppm">
400 <term><command>pdftoppm</command></term>
401 <listitem>
402 <para>
403 converts PDF files to PBM, PGM and PPM formats.
404 </para>
405 <indexterm zone="poppler pdftoppm">
406 <primary sortas="b-pdftoppm">pdftoppm</primary>
407 </indexterm>
408 </listitem>
409 </varlistentry>
410
411 <varlistentry id="pdftops">
412 <term><command>pdftops</command></term>
413 <listitem>
414 <para>
415 converts PDF files to Postscript format.
416 </para>
417 <indexterm zone="poppler pdftops">
418 <primary sortas="b-pdftops">pdftops</primary>
419 </indexterm>
420 </listitem>
421 </varlistentry>
422
423 <varlistentry id="pdftotext">
424 <term><command>pdftotext</command></term>
425 <listitem>
426 <para>
427 converts PDF files to plain text.
428 </para>
429 <indexterm zone="poppler pdftotext">
430 <primary sortas="b-pdftotext">pdftotext</primary>
431 </indexterm>
432 </listitem>
433 </varlistentry>
434
435 <varlistentry id="pdfunite">
436 <term><command>pdfunite</command></term>
437 <listitem>
438 <para>
439 merges several PDF files, in the order of their occurrence on the
440 command line, to one PDF output file.
441 </para>
442 <indexterm zone="poppler pdfunite">
443 <primary sortas="b-pdfunite">pdfunite</primary>
444 </indexterm>
445 </listitem>
446 </varlistentry>
447
448 <varlistentry id="poppler-glib-demo">
449 <term><command>poppler-glib-demo</command></term>
450 <listitem>
451 <para>
452 is a tool to demonstrate the API, and for use when debugging and
453 testing <application>Poppler</application>.
454 </para>
455 <indexterm zone="poppler poppler-glib-demo">
456 <primary sortas="b-poppler-glib-demo">poppler-glib-demo</primary>
457 </indexterm>
458 </listitem>
459 </varlistentry>
460
461 <varlistentry id="libpoppler">
462 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpoppler.so</filename></term>
463 <listitem>
464 <para>
465 contains the API functions to render PDF files.
466 </para>
467 <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler">
468 <primary sortas="c-libpoppler">libpoppler.so</primary>
469 </indexterm>
470 </listitem>
471 </varlistentry>
472
473 <varlistentry id="libpoppler-cpp">
474 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpoppler-cpp.so</filename></term>
475 <listitem>
476 <para>
477 is a C++ backend for rendering PDF files.
478 </para>
479 <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler-cpp">
480 <primary sortas="c-libpoppler-cpp">libpoppler-cpp.so</primary>
481 </indexterm>
482 </listitem>
483 </varlistentry>
484
485 <varlistentry id="libpoppler-glib">
486 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpoppler-glib.so</filename></term>
487 <listitem>
488 <para>
489 is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering functions
490 with <application>GTK+</application>.
491 </para>
492 <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler-glib">
493 <primary sortas="c-libpoppler-glib">libpoppler-glib.so</primary>
494 </indexterm>
495 </listitem>
496 </varlistentry>
497
498<!--
499 <varlistentry id="libpoppler-qt4">
500 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpoppler-qt4.so</filename></term>
501 <listitem>
502 <para>
503 is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering functions
504 with <application>Qt</application>4.
505 </para>
506 <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler-qt4">
507 <primary sortas="c-libpoppler-qt4">libpoppler-qt4.so</primary>
508 </indexterm>
509 </listitem>
510 </varlistentry>
511-->
512
513 <varlistentry id="libpoppler-qt5">
514 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpoppler-qt5.so</filename></term>
515 <listitem>
516 <para>
517 is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering functions
518 with <application>Qt</application>5.
519 </para>
520 <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler-qt5">
521 <primary sortas="c-libpoppler-qt5">libpoppler-qt5.so</primary>
522 </indexterm>
523 </listitem>
524 </varlistentry>
525
526 </variablelist>
527
528 </sect2>
529
530</sect1>
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