[tex-live] sources of pdftopng
Siep Kroonenberg
siepo at cybercomm.nl
Mon Jan 4 16:40:47 CET 2016
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 04:25:40PM +0100, Denis Bitouzé wrote:
> Le 04/01/16 à 16h01, Bob Tennent <rdt at cs.queensu.ca> a écrit :
>
> >>| I was not aware of `pdftopng', and with good reason: it doesn't
> >>| exist on Linux:
> >
> > It's included in the xpdf package; e.g.,
> >
> > % rpm -ql xpdf | grep pdftopng
> > /usr/bin/pdftopng
> > /usr/share/man/man1/pdftopng.1.gz
>
> Ah OK, so not part of TeX Live.
>
> But, strange nevertheless: on my Linux box (Mageia 5):
>
> ┌────
> │ $ rpm -ql xpdf
> │ /usr/bin/xpdf
> │ /usr/share/applications/xpdf.desktop
> │ /usr/share/icons/large/xpdf.png
> │ /usr/share/icons/mini/xpdf.png
> │ /usr/share/icons/xpdf.png
> │ /usr/share/man/man1/xpdf.1.xz
> └────
>
> > Linux *is* a Unix-like system.
>
> Yes, I know :)
>
> > Sources here:
> >
> > http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
The original xpdf stuff has been superseded by the poppler fork. On
my ubuntu, xpdf now uses the poppler libraries. I guess pdftocairo
is an expanded version of the original pdftopng/pdftoppm.
--
Siep Kroonenberg
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