| Summary: | rework the pdfimport extension and use more recent Poppler build | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | V Stuart Foote <vsfoote> |
| Component: | filters and storage | Assignee: | Caolán McNamara <caolan.mcnamara> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | CC: | aron.budea, caolan.mcnamara, michael.meeks, michael.stahl, sberg.fun, thb, thomas-libo, vsfoote, vvort |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| See Also: |
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101220 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101654 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119103 |
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| Whiteboard: | target:5.3.0 target:5.2.2 target:5.2.1 | ||
| Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 99746 | ||
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Description
V Stuart Foote
2016-08-11 20:33:57 UTC
The bundled one is definitely far from the latest. For distros like Fedora we're building against 0.41.0 at the moment, so its known to build against at least that. And we haven't any specific complaints so I guess its worth updating the bundled one too. https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/28087/ for a first stab at this Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=10290000117b562e3f179c3d1073774dd54cdfee Resolves: tdf#101460 use most recent poppler release It will be available in 5.3.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback. @Caolan, thanks for pushing in the new poppler Works well in a recent master (build 932804559e845fb8ec6ac3a3b49308136a7e81e6) Unfortunately that alone does not get us too far with improving fidelity of the pdfimport filter. The pdfimport filter needs work to put it on a par with FOSS rendering results Evince or Okular Also, seems like some of the poppler helper utilities could be used to extract document details (pdfinfo, pdffont) or maybe to write image directly to a LO canvas (pdftocairo). But those would need UI work and probably deep refactoring of the pdfimport filter to make use the libpoppler implementations. Guess those facets will each need BZ issue tied to bug 99746 Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-2": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=92986a1d516195ed73ad2036ee0647a54baf84b6&h=libreoffice-5-2 Resolves: tdf#101460 use most recent poppler release It will be available in 5.2.2. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback. Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-2-1": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=d26fb60f2f66d95d806696dfbb75b907ea3e82ed&h=libreoffice-5-2-1 Resolves: tdf#101460 use most recent poppler release It will be available in 5.2.1. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback. |