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Hmm, I'm starting to wonder whether or not the "correct title" is indeed "poppler" as opposed to "Poppler." A quick look at the official site clearly shows a capital 'P' in the logo. -- PoprocksCk 23:50, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
The package spec file for Poppler includes lots of information about their plans and the reason for the split from Xpdf (amicable split as far as I know, although fork often implies otherwise). Adding here since I'm not sure of a good way to cite it. http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/jds/spec-files/trunk/poppler.spec -- Horkana 00:56, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
This and many other free software pages are being vandalized by an anonymous user by the IP 142.151.175.39 ( contribs), repeatedly adding "and open source" to "this is free software". We all know OS is a subset of FS, so adding this is superfluous, and seems a bit biased to me. — Isilanes 15:05, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
The Cairo comment is wrong, poppler does not "use" cairo, has "the option to use" cairo, also antialiased vector graphics, transparent objects and building on non-X platforms is already supported on plain xpdf renderer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.57.131.176 ( talk) 09:11, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
The introduction could be better written. As it stands, it's quite difficult to understand. baiusmc
Is the Optical Character Recognition functionality in Evince provided by poppler? Gronky ( talk) 18:01, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
No, poppler doesn't do OCR. Source: am poppler maintainer - Tsdgeos ( talk) 20:25, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
I have cleaned up most of this page, made it more understandable found citations, etc. I cannot find a discussion/topic regarding deletion, I am going to have a quick look to see if I didn't miss it, if I cannot find one I will remove the notice. -- Gnepets ( talk) 05:01, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
What is Poppler, exactly? Is it a "backend"? Is it a "frontend"? Why does the Poppler Wiki mention "Poppler frontends" and "Rendering backends"? Beside Cairo and Splash, the article currently mentions a QT4 backend, but it doesn't elaborate much, nor provides very good references. Is it just the "normal" libpoppler ported from Qt3 to Qt4? I hope somebody in the know can explain this better, either in here or in the Xpdf article. 189.235.173.179 ( talk) 06:35, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
Version 0.16 was released on december 27th. I think it implements the ability to add text annotations, so someone should update the article to reflect that (among other things). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.248.171.113 ( talk) 15:50, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
something called 'splash' is mentioned as a backend. but there is no information about what it is. -- 87.127.117.246 ( talk) 12:43, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
I am getting following error when i run ./configure command in terminal
onfigure: error: in `/Users/hassanimran/desktop/poppler/poppler-0.20.2': > configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old. Make sure it > is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full > path to pkg-config. > > Alternatively, you may set the environment variables FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS > and FONTCONFIG_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. > See the pkg-config man page for more details. > > To get pkg-config, see < http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/>. > See `config.log' for more details
Any one help me out Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.109.41.176 ( talk) 04:44, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
The FSF statement only speaks to the goals of GNU PDF, viz., "[t]he goal of the GNU PDF project from its beginning in 2007 was to provide a complete implementation of the emerging ISO standard for PDF, ISO 32000-1." The statement further reports that libpoppler "[had] matured its support for these and other PDF features," but makes no claims regarding the completeness of said implementation. Ustawa ( talk) 19:39, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
See https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=f26285f361478219ea9d3c6de1529ecd5ff96ac9 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:810B:C53F:B9E8:9FC:4727:6723:89EC ( talk) 15:01, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
I doubt poppler actually supports JS: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/162
The citation for JS support in the Wikipedia article comes from a Linux Magazine article whose title makes a claim that is not supported by the article's contents. 75.91.200.212 ( talk) 11:35, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
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Hmm, I'm starting to wonder whether or not the "correct title" is indeed "poppler" as opposed to "Poppler." A quick look at the official site clearly shows a capital 'P' in the logo. -- PoprocksCk 23:50, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
The package spec file for Poppler includes lots of information about their plans and the reason for the split from Xpdf (amicable split as far as I know, although fork often implies otherwise). Adding here since I'm not sure of a good way to cite it. http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/jds/spec-files/trunk/poppler.spec -- Horkana 00:56, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
This and many other free software pages are being vandalized by an anonymous user by the IP 142.151.175.39 ( contribs), repeatedly adding "and open source" to "this is free software". We all know OS is a subset of FS, so adding this is superfluous, and seems a bit biased to me. — Isilanes 15:05, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
The Cairo comment is wrong, poppler does not "use" cairo, has "the option to use" cairo, also antialiased vector graphics, transparent objects and building on non-X platforms is already supported on plain xpdf renderer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.57.131.176 ( talk) 09:11, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
The introduction could be better written. As it stands, it's quite difficult to understand. baiusmc
Is the Optical Character Recognition functionality in Evince provided by poppler? Gronky ( talk) 18:01, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
No, poppler doesn't do OCR. Source: am poppler maintainer - Tsdgeos ( talk) 20:25, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
I have cleaned up most of this page, made it more understandable found citations, etc. I cannot find a discussion/topic regarding deletion, I am going to have a quick look to see if I didn't miss it, if I cannot find one I will remove the notice. -- Gnepets ( talk) 05:01, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
What is Poppler, exactly? Is it a "backend"? Is it a "frontend"? Why does the Poppler Wiki mention "Poppler frontends" and "Rendering backends"? Beside Cairo and Splash, the article currently mentions a QT4 backend, but it doesn't elaborate much, nor provides very good references. Is it just the "normal" libpoppler ported from Qt3 to Qt4? I hope somebody in the know can explain this better, either in here or in the Xpdf article. 189.235.173.179 ( talk) 06:35, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
Version 0.16 was released on december 27th. I think it implements the ability to add text annotations, so someone should update the article to reflect that (among other things). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.248.171.113 ( talk) 15:50, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
something called 'splash' is mentioned as a backend. but there is no information about what it is. -- 87.127.117.246 ( talk) 12:43, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
I am getting following error when i run ./configure command in terminal
onfigure: error: in `/Users/hassanimran/desktop/poppler/poppler-0.20.2': > configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too old. Make sure it > is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable to the full > path to pkg-config. > > Alternatively, you may set the environment variables FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS > and FONTCONFIG_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. > See the pkg-config man page for more details. > > To get pkg-config, see < http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/>. > See `config.log' for more details
Any one help me out Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.109.41.176 ( talk) 04:44, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
The FSF statement only speaks to the goals of GNU PDF, viz., "[t]he goal of the GNU PDF project from its beginning in 2007 was to provide a complete implementation of the emerging ISO standard for PDF, ISO 32000-1." The statement further reports that libpoppler "[had] matured its support for these and other PDF features," but makes no claims regarding the completeness of said implementation. Ustawa ( talk) 19:39, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
See https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=f26285f361478219ea9d3c6de1529ecd5ff96ac9 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:810B:C53F:B9E8:9FC:4727:6723:89EC ( talk) 15:01, 11 April 2018 (UTC)
I doubt poppler actually supports JS: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/162
The citation for JS support in the Wikipedia article comes from a Linux Magazine article whose title makes a claim that is not supported by the article's contents. 75.91.200.212 ( talk) 11:35, 26 September 2018 (UTC)