[tldistro] libxpdf vs poppler

[Norbert Preining]

On Mi, 16 Apr 2008, Martin Schröder wrote:
> > We use also libpoppler in fedora. I attach the patch. It is not the
> >  cleanest patch ever for the part relating with building against an
> >  external poppler, but it works.
> 
> This will most likely not work with TL2008 and certainly not with
> pdfTeX 1.50.

Not surprisingly, we (Fedora, Debian, SuSE, ...) will have to
adapt/create a new patch for libpoppler.

It would be nice if we (debian hat on) distro people could organize
these efforts together, as we did with Ubuntu/Debian. I guess we all
need the same patch.

Best wishes

Norbert

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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>        Vienna University of Technology
Debian Developer <preining at debian.org>                         Debian TeX Group
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