[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The original xpdf stuff has been superseded by the poppler fork.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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