[tldistro] libxpdf vs poppler

[Martin Schröder]

2008/4/15, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>:
> Putting TeX Live head on: We follow upstream in this respect, i.e., if
>  pdftex starts to support libpoppler TeX Live will follow. But this will
>  not happen soon, AFAIR. But Martin might prove me wrong.

I've laid the groundwork in pdfTeX 1.50:
http://foundry.supelec.fr/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/source/src/texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdflib.h?root=pdftex&view=markup
http://foundry.supelec.fr/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/source/src/texk/web2c/pdftexdir/pdflib.cc?root=pdftex&view=markup

That's IMHO a clean interface between pdftex and xpdf; it should be
easy for someone interested and knowing poppler to adopt it to
poppler. Not me, but I'm willing to help.

I know that JK is working with poppler, so something similiar might be
possible for XeTeX. And adopting luatex should be easy.

Best
   Martin