Linking TL with poppler?

[Vincent Torri]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 12:14 AM Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Hilmar - certainly not a dumb question. I took out those options
> because, due to version skew and incompatibilities, it became impossible
> (impractical) to support.  It also creates a substantially different
> pdftex (et al.) program, which is worrisome to me in principle.
>
> I doubt --with-system-xpdf does anything useful, since I don't think a
> standalone libxpdf is distributed on modern systems. (Not sure it ever was.)
>
> Nevertheless, if you or anyone can provide maintainable patches to link
> with poppler, I am not opposed to installing them.

have you tried to use mupdf instead of poppler,to see if the resulting
pdf is better or not ?

Vincent Torri