Upgrade internal xpdf to poppler Background: Historically, LibreOffice uses xpdf for PDF import, on Mac and Windows. The poppler library is a much more active fork of that project, distro-packaged LibO uses it, and we would like to update the internal version, too - this needs someone able to build on windows and fix a few potential build problems there, otherwise this should be a really easy task. Skills: Windows building, basic c++
Deteted "Easyhack" from summary
Peter Foley committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=a6e9bb4c7bad649cb44efaeef67fa18090348c53 fdo#38878 upgrade xpdf to poppler 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.
Tor Lillqvist committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=97d8b882210c5a7f3bf6b3d53bfef1fb9a487acf Revert "fdo#38878 upgrade xpdf to poppler" 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.
Created attachment 70557 [details] patch to convert xpdf to poppler
The patch I've attached dosen't work on OSX. See http://gerrit.libreoffice.org/1036 for more info.
Is this bug still relevant? In comment 2 and 3, there are patches for this bug, but it was never closed. Is it actually completed?
AFAIR there were horrible problems with compiling and/or cross-compiling poplar for windows and so this didn't get done (or somesuch) :-) Help much appreciated on top of the work that was done; or did I miss something; Fridrich ? :-)
Fridrich Å trba committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=eb276d11a652601f743d69ada7a38016bd97d73e fdo#38878: Upgrading internal xpdf -> poppler 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.
Migrating Whiteboard tags to Keywords: (EasyHack DifficultyInteresting SkillCpp SkillScript SkillWindows ) [NinjaEdit]
removing skillWindows keyword. There is no such thing at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks/lists/by_Required_Skill and having a "skill*" keyword makes the easyHack not even appear on that page even in "uncategorized".