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Update to poppler-0.18.2, except for users of kdegraphics.

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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.gz">
8 <!ENTITY poppler-download-ftp " ">
9 <!ENTITY poppler-md5sum "38616927823ef01937aab26872e957e4">
10 <!ENTITY poppler-size "1.9 MB">
11 <!ENTITY poppler-buildsize "112 MB (including the encoding data)">
12 <!ENTITY poppler-time "1.2 SBU (includes building with most dependencies)">
13
14 <!ENTITY poppler-data-version "0.4.5">
15 <!ENTITY poppler-data-download-http "http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-data-&poppler-data-version;.tar.gz">
16 <!ENTITY poppler-data-md5sum "448dd7c5077570e340340706cef931aa">
17 <!ENTITY poppler-data-size "4.0 MB">
18]>
19
20<sect1 id="poppler" xreflabel="Poppler-&poppler-version;">
21 <?dbhtml filename="poppler.html"?>
22
23 <sect1info>
24 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
25 <date>$Date$</date>
26 </sect1info>
27
28 <title>Poppler-&poppler-version;</title>
29
30 <indexterm zone="poppler">
31 <primary sortas="a-Poppler">Poppler</primary>
32 </indexterm>
33
34 <sect2 role="package">
35 <title>Introduction to Poppler</title>
36
37 <para>The <application>Poppler</application> package contains a PDF
38 rendering library and command line tools used to manipulate PDF files.
39 This is useful for providing PDF rendering functionality as a shared
40 library.</para>
41
42 &lfs71_checked;
43
44 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
45 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
46 <listitem>
47 <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&poppler-download-http;"/></para>
48 </listitem>
49 <listitem>
50 <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&poppler-download-ftp;"/></para>
51 </listitem>
52 <listitem>
53 <para>Download MD5 sum: &poppler-md5sum;</para>
54 </listitem>
55 <listitem>
56 <para>Download size: &poppler-size;</para>
57 </listitem>
58 <listitem>
59 <para>Estimated disk space required: &poppler-buildsize;</para>
60 </listitem>
61 <listitem>
62 <para>Estimated build time: &poppler-time;</para>
63 </listitem>
64 </itemizedlist>
65
66 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
67
68 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
69 <title>Poppler Encoding Data</title>
70 <listitem>
71 <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&poppler-data-download-http;"/></para>
72 </listitem>
73 <listitem>
74 <para>Download MD5 sum: &poppler-data-md5sum;</para>
75 </listitem>
76 <listitem>
77 <para>Download size: &poppler-data-size;</para>
78 </listitem>
79 </itemizedlist>
80
81 <para>The additional package consists of encoding files for use with
82 <application>Poppler</application>. The encoding files are optional and
83 <application>Poppler</application> will automatically read them if they are
84 present. When installed, they enable <application>Poppler</application> to
85 render CJK and Cyrillic properly.</para>
86
87 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Poppler Dependencies</bridgehead>
88
89 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
90 <para role="required"><xref linkend="fontconfig"/> and
91 <xref linkend="pkgconfig"/></para>
92
93 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
94 <para role="recommended"><xref linkend="libjpeg"/>, <xref linkend="cairo"/>,
95 and <ulink url="http://www.openjpeg.org">OpenJPEG</ulink>
96 </para>
97
98 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
99 <para role="optional"><xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
100 <xref linkend="qt4"/>
101 <xref linkend="curl"/>
102 <xref linkend="libtiff"/>,
103 <xref linkend="libxml2"/>, and
104 <xref linkend="lcms"/></para>
105
106 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
107 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/poppler"/></para>
108
109 </sect2>
110
111 <sect2 role="installation">
112 <title>Installation of Poppler</title>
113
114 <caution>
115 <para><application>Poppler</application> will overwrite command-line
116 utilities and man pages previously installed by the
117 <application>Xpdf</application> package. If you prefer to keep the
118 <application>Xpdf</application> versions of these files, pass the
119 <option>--disable-utils</option> parameter to the
120 <command>configure</command> command below.</para>
121 </caution>
122
123<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
124 --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-static &amp;&amp;
125make</userinput></screen>
126
127 <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
128
129 <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
130
131<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
132install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/poppler-&poppler-version; &amp;&amp;
133install -v -m644 README* /usr/share/doc/poppler-&poppler-version;</userinput></screen>
134
135 <para>If you downloaded the additional encoding data package, install
136 it by issuing the following commands:</para>
137
138<screen><userinput>tar -xf ../poppler-data-&poppler-data-version;.tar.gz &amp;&amp;
139cd poppler-data-&poppler-data-version;</userinput></screen>
140
141 <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
142
143<screen role="root"><userinput>make prefix=/usr install</userinput></screen>
144
145 </sect2>
146
147 <sect2 role="commands">
148 <title>Command Explanations</title>
149
150 <!-- This is discouraged by the authors. There is built-in decompression
151 and zlib is not needed
152 <para><parameter>-enable-zlib</parameter>: This parameter forces the build
153 to link with the system-installed
154 <filename class='libraryfile'>libz</filename> library to enable compressed
155 PDF functionality.</para> -->
156
157 <para><parameter>--disable-static</parameter>: Prevent static libraries
158 being built and installed.</para>
159
160 <para><option>--disable-cairo-output</option>: This parameter
161 disables building the <application>cairo</application> graphics backend.</para>
162
163 <para><option>--disable-poppler-glib</option>,
164 <option>--disable-poppler-qt4</option> and
165 <option>--disable-gtk-test</option>: These parameters disable
166 building the <application>GLib</application> and <application>qt4</application>
167 wrappers and the <application>GTK+</application> test program.</para>
168
169 <para><option>--enable-xpdf-headers</option>: Install old
170 <application>Xpdf</application> headers required by certain programs. These
171 are unsupported by <application>Poppler</application>.</para>
172
173 </sect2>
174
175 <sect2 role="content">
176 <title>Contents</title>
177
178 <segmentedlist>
179 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
180 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
181 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
182
183 <seglistitem>
184 <seg>pdffonts, pdfimages, pdfinfo, pdfseparate, pdftocairo, pdftohtml,
185 pdftoppm, pdftops, pdftotext, pdfunite, poppler-glib-demo</seg>
186 <seg>libpoppler.so, libpoppler-cpp.so, libpoppler-glib.so,
187 and libpoppler-qt4.so</seg>
188 <seg>/usr/include/poppler, /usr/share/doc/poppler-&poppler-version;,
189 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/poppler and /usr/share/poppler</seg>
190 </seglistitem>
191 </segmentedlist>
192
193 <variablelist>
194 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
195 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
196 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
197
198 <varlistentry id="pdffonts-poppler">
199 <term><command>pdffonts</command></term>
200 <listitem>
201 <para>lists the fonts used in a PDF file along
202 with various information for each font.</para>
203 <indexterm zone="poppler pdffonts">
204 <primary sortas="b-pdffonts">pdffonts</primary>
205 </indexterm>
206 </listitem>
207 </varlistentry>
208
209 <varlistentry id="pdfimages-poppler">
210 <term><command>pdfimages</command></term>
211 <listitem>
212 <para>saves images from a PDF file as PPM, PBM, or JPEG files.</para>
213 <indexterm zone="poppler pdfimages">
214 <primary sortas="b-pdfimages">pdfimages</primary>
215 </indexterm>
216 </listitem>
217 </varlistentry>
218
219 <varlistentry id="pdfinfo-poppler">
220 <term><command>pdfinfo</command></term>
221 <listitem>
222 <para>prints the contents of the 'Info' dictionary (plus some
223 other useful information) from a PDF file.</para>
224 <indexterm zone="poppler pdfinfo">
225 <primary sortas="b-pdfinfo">pdfinfo</primary>
226 </indexterm>
227 </listitem>
228 </varlistentry>
229
230 <varlistentry id="pdfseparate">
231 <term><command>pdfseparate</command></term>
232 <listitem>
233 <para>extracts single pages from a PDF file.</para>
234 <indexterm zone="poppler pdfseparate">
235 <primary sortas="b-pdseparate">pdfseparate</primary>
236 </indexterm>
237 </listitem>
238 </varlistentry>
239
240 <varlistentry id="pdftocairo">
241 <term><command>pdftocairo</command></term>
242 <listitem>
243 <para>converts a PDF file to one of several formats (PNG, JPEG, PDF, PS,
244 EPS, SVG) using the cairo output device of the poppler library.</para>
245 <indexterm zone="poppler pdftocairo">
246 <primary sortas="b-pdftocairo">pdftocairo</primary>
247 </indexterm>
248 </listitem>
249 </varlistentry>
250
251 <varlistentry id="pdftohtml">
252 <term><command>pdftohtml</command></term>
253 <listitem>
254 <para>converts a PDF file to HTML.</para>
255 <indexterm zone="poppler pdftohtml">
256 <primary sortas="b-pdftohtml">pdftohtml</primary>
257 </indexterm>
258 </listitem>
259 </varlistentry>
260
261 <varlistentry id="pdftoppm-poppler">
262 <term><command>pdftoppm</command></term>
263 <listitem>
264 <para>converts PDF files to PBM, PGM and PPM formats.</para>
265 <indexterm zone="poppler pdftoppm">
266 <primary sortas="b-pdftoppm">pdftoppm</primary>
267 </indexterm>
268 </listitem>
269 </varlistentry>
270
271 <varlistentry id="pdftops-poppler">
272 <term><command>pdftops</command></term>
273 <listitem>
274 <para> converts PDF files to Postscript format.</para>
275 <indexterm zone="poppler pdftops">
276 <primary sortas="b-pdftops">pdftops</primary>
277 </indexterm>
278 </listitem>
279 </varlistentry>
280
281 <varlistentry id="pdftotext-poppler">
282 <term><command>pdftotext</command></term>
283 <listitem>
284 <para>converts PDF files to plain text.</para>
285 <indexterm zone="poppler pdftotext">
286 <primary sortas="b-pdftotext">pdftotext</primary>
287 </indexterm>
288 </listitem>
289 </varlistentry>
290
291 <varlistentry id="pdfunite">
292 <term><command>pdfunite</command></term>
293 <listitem>
294 <para>merges several PDF files, in the order of their occurrence on the
295 command line, to one PDF output file.</para>
296 <indexterm zone="poppler pdfunite">
297 <primary sortas="b-pdfunite">pdfunite</primary>
298 </indexterm>
299 </listitem>
300 </varlistentry>
301
302 <varlistentry id="poppler-glib-demo">
303 <term><command>poppler-glib-demo</command></term>
304 <listitem>
305 <para>is a tool to demonstrate the API, and for use when debugging and
306 testing <application>poppler</application>.</para>
307 <indexterm zone="poppler poppler-glib-demo">
308 <primary sortas="b-poppler-glib-demo">poppler-glib-demo</primary>
309 </indexterm>
310 </listitem>
311 </varlistentry>
312
313 <varlistentry id="libpoppler">
314 <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpoppler.so</filename></term>
315 <listitem>
316 <para>contains the API functions to render PDF files.</para>
317 <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler">
318 <primary sortas="c-libpoppler">libpoppler.so</primary>
319 </indexterm>
320 </listitem>
321 </varlistentry>
322
323 <varlistentry id="libpoppler-cpp">
324 <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpoppler-cpp.so</filename></term>
325 <listitem>
326 <para>is a C++ backend for rendering PDF files.</para>
327 <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler-cpp">
328 <primary sortas="c-libpoppler-cpp">libpoppler-cpp.so</primary>
329 </indexterm>
330 </listitem>
331 </varlistentry>
332
333 <varlistentry id="libpoppler-glib">
334 <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpoppler-glib.so</filename></term>
335 <listitem>
336 <para>is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering
337 functions with <application>GTK+</application>.</para>
338 <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler-glib">
339 <primary sortas="c-libpoppler-glib">libpoppler-glib.so</primary>
340 </indexterm>
341 </listitem>
342 </varlistentry>
343
344 <varlistentry id="libpoppler-qt4">
345 <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpoppler-qt4.so</filename></term>
346 <listitem>
347 <para>is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering
348 functions with <application>Qt</application>-4.</para>
349 <indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler-qt4">
350 <primary sortas="c-libpoppler-qt4">libpoppler-qt4.so</primary>
351 </indexterm>
352 </listitem>
353 </varlistentry>
354
355 </variablelist>
356
357 </sect2>
358
359</sect1>
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