3 Dec
2005
3 Dec
'05
1:06 a.m.
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 15:13:09 -0800, Corey Burger wrote:
Poppler is the freedesktop engine for rendering PDFs. It is a friendly fork of XPDF with some hacks from KPDF. Evince uses it. The end goal is that anybody can write a frontend and not have to work about the backend. It may also do other things that I am not aware of.
The point is that poppler provides PDF parsing in a nice library. It's got multiple backends for rendering already, (cairo, splash, etc.), so hooking up a new backend to "render" to inkscape's internal data structure shouldn't be too much work.
-Carl