glfs/general/graphlib/poppler.xml
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%general-entities;
<!ENTITY poppler-download-http "http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-&poppler-version;.tar.gz">
<!ENTITY poppler-download-ftp " ">
<!ENTITY poppler-md5sum "12658f3308597e57f3faff538cc73baf">
<!ENTITY poppler-size "1.9 MB">
<!ENTITY poppler-buildsize "28 MB (excluding the encoding data) and 112 MB (including the encoding data)">
<!ENTITY poppler-time "1.3 SBU (includes building with most dependencies)">
<!ENTITY poppler-data-version "0.4.5">
<!ENTITY poppler-data-download-http "http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-data-&poppler-data-version;.tar.gz">
<!ENTITY poppler-data-md5sum "448dd7c5077570e340340706cef931aa">
<!ENTITY poppler-data-size "4.0 MB">
]>
<sect1 id="poppler" xreflabel="Poppler-&poppler-version;">
<?dbhtml filename="poppler.html"?>
<sect1info>
<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
<date>$Date$</date>
</sect1info>
<title>Poppler-&poppler-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="poppler">
<primary sortas="a-Poppler">Poppler</primary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title>Introduction to Poppler</title>
<para>The <application>Poppler</application> package contains a PDF
rendering library and command line tools used to manipulate PDF files.
This is useful for providing PDF rendering functionality as a shared
library.</para>
&lfs71_checked;
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
<para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&poppler-download-http;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&poppler-download-ftp;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download MD5 sum: &poppler-md5sum;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download size: &poppler-size;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Estimated disk space required: &poppler-buildsize;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Estimated build time: &poppler-time;</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<title>Poppler Encoding Data</title>
<listitem>
<para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&poppler-data-download-http;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download MD5 sum: &poppler-data-md5sum;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download size: &poppler-data-size;</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>The additional package consists of encoding files for use with
<application>Poppler</application>. The encoding files are optional and
<application>Poppler</application> will automatically read them if they are
present. When installed, they enable <application>Poppler</application> to
render CJK and Cyrillic properly.</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Poppler Dependencies</bridgehead>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
<para role="required"><xref linkend="fontconfig"/> and
<xref linkend="pkgconfig"/></para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
<para role="recommended"><xref linkend="libjpeg"/>, <xref linkend="cairo"/>
and <xref linkend="openjpeg"/>
</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
<para role="optional"><xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
<xref linkend="qt4"/> (the <filename>libpoppler-qt4.so</filename> library is needed
for PDF support in <application>Okular</application>),
<xref linkend="curl"/>,
<xref linkend="libtiff"/>,
<xref linkend="libxml2"/> and
<xref linkend="lcms"/></para>
<para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
<ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/poppler"/></para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Poppler</title>
<caution>
<para><application>Poppler</application> will overwrite command-line
utilities and man pages previously installed by the
<application>Xpdf</application> package. If you prefer to keep the
<application>Xpdf</application> versions of these files, pass the
<option>--disable-utils</option> parameter to the
<command>configure</command> command below.</para>
</caution>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--disable-static &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>
<para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
<para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/poppler-&poppler-version; &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 README* /usr/share/doc/poppler-&poppler-version;</userinput></screen>
<para>If you downloaded the additional encoding data package, install
it by issuing the following commands:</para>
<screen><userinput>tar -xf ../poppler-data-&poppler-data-version;.tar.gz &amp;&amp;
cd poppler-data-&poppler-data-version;</userinput></screen>
<para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>make prefix=/usr install</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="commands">
<title>Command Explanations</title>
<!-- This is discouraged by the authors. There is built-in decompression
and zlib is not needed
<para><parameter>-enable-zlib</parameter>: This parameter forces the build
to link with the system-installed
<filename class='libraryfile'>libz</filename> library to enable compressed
PDF functionality.</para> -->
<para><option>--disable-static</option>: Prevent static libraries
being built and installed.</para>
<para><option>--disable-cairo-output</option>: This parameter
disables building the <application>cairo</application> graphics backend.</para>
<para><option>--disable-poppler-glib</option>,
<option>--disable-poppler-qt4</option> and
<option>--disable-gtk-test</option>: These parameters disable
building the <application>GLib</application> and <application>Qt4</application>
wrappers and the <application>GTK+</application> test program.</para>
<para><option>--enable-xpdf-headers</option>: Install old
<application>Xpdf</application> headers required by certain programs (e.g. by
<application>Okular</application> for PDF support). These are unsupported by
<application>Poppler</application>.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="content">
<title>Contents</title>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>pdffonts, pdfimages, pdfinfo, pdfseparate, pdftocairo, pdftohtml,
pdftoppm, pdftops, pdftotext, pdfunite and poppler-glib-demo</seg>
<seg>libpoppler.so, libpoppler-cpp.so, libpoppler-glib.so,
and libpoppler-qt4.so</seg>
<seg>/usr/include/poppler, /usr/share/doc/poppler-&poppler-version;,
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/poppler and /usr/share/poppler</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<variablelist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
<varlistentry id="pdffonts-poppler">
<term><command>pdffonts</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>lists the fonts used in a PDF file along
with various information for each font.</para>
<indexterm zone="poppler pdffonts">
<primary sortas="b-pdffonts">pdffonts</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="pdfimages-poppler">
<term><command>pdfimages</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>saves images from a PDF file as PPM, PBM, or JPEG files.</para>
<indexterm zone="poppler pdfimages">
<primary sortas="b-pdfimages">pdfimages</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="pdfinfo-poppler">
<term><command>pdfinfo</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>prints the contents of the 'Info' dictionary (plus some
other useful information) from a PDF file.</para>
<indexterm zone="poppler pdfinfo">
<primary sortas="b-pdfinfo">pdfinfo</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="pdfseparate">
<term><command>pdfseparate</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>extracts single pages from a PDF file.</para>
<indexterm zone="poppler pdfseparate">
<primary sortas="b-pdseparate">pdfseparate</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="pdftocairo">
<term><command>pdftocairo</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>converts a PDF file to one of several formats (PNG, JPEG, PDF, PS,
EPS, SVG) using the cairo output device of the poppler library.</para>
<indexterm zone="poppler pdftocairo">
<primary sortas="b-pdftocairo">pdftocairo</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="pdftohtml">
<term><command>pdftohtml</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>converts a PDF file to HTML.</para>
<indexterm zone="poppler pdftohtml">
<primary sortas="b-pdftohtml">pdftohtml</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="pdftoppm-poppler">
<term><command>pdftoppm</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>converts PDF files to PBM, PGM and PPM formats.</para>
<indexterm zone="poppler pdftoppm">
<primary sortas="b-pdftoppm">pdftoppm</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="pdftops-poppler">
<term><command>pdftops</command></term>
<listitem>
<para> converts PDF files to Postscript format.</para>
<indexterm zone="poppler pdftops">
<primary sortas="b-pdftops">pdftops</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="pdftotext-poppler">
<term><command>pdftotext</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>converts PDF files to plain text.</para>
<indexterm zone="poppler pdftotext">
<primary sortas="b-pdftotext">pdftotext</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="pdfunite">
<term><command>pdfunite</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>merges several PDF files, in the order of their occurrence on the
command line, to one PDF output file.</para>
<indexterm zone="poppler pdfunite">
<primary sortas="b-pdfunite">pdfunite</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="poppler-glib-demo">
<term><command>poppler-glib-demo</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>is a tool to demonstrate the API, and for use when debugging and
testing <application>poppler</application>.</para>
<indexterm zone="poppler poppler-glib-demo">
<primary sortas="b-poppler-glib-demo">poppler-glib-demo</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libpoppler">
<term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpoppler.so</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>contains the API functions to render PDF files.</para>
<indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler">
<primary sortas="c-libpoppler">libpoppler.so</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libpoppler-cpp">
<term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpoppler-cpp.so</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>is a C++ backend for rendering PDF files.</para>
<indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler-cpp">
<primary sortas="c-libpoppler-cpp">libpoppler-cpp.so</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libpoppler-glib">
<term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpoppler-glib.so</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering
functions with <application>GTK+</application>.</para>
<indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler-glib">
<primary sortas="c-libpoppler-glib">libpoppler-glib.so</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="libpoppler-qt4">
<term><filename class='libraryfile'>libpoppler-qt4.so</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering
functions with <application>Qt</application>-4.</para>
<indexterm zone="poppler libpoppler-qt4">
<primary sortas="c-libpoppler-qt4">libpoppler-qt4.so</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>