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Bug 326814 - Use poppler instead of xpdf
Use poppler instead of xpdf
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: beagle
Classification: Other
Component: General
0.1.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Beagle Bugs
Beagle Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-01-13 10:42 UTC by Bastien Nocera
Modified: 2006-01-15 23:51 UTC
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Description Bastien Nocera 2006-01-13 10:42:23 UTC 
Beagle should use the poppler library from freedesktop to gather the metadata, instead of relying on parsing the output of the pdfinfo command-line utility.

Evince, which is in the GNOME desktop, already uses libpoppler.
Comment 1 Joe Shaw 2006-01-13 19:21:25 UTC 
Unfortunately poppler is GPL, which we can't use.  Beagle is X11, and includes Lucene, which is Apache licensed.  These two things are apparently incompatible, according to http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html

So while switching to poppler would be nice, we'd still have to use an out-of-process tool.

Hooray for open source licensing!
Comment 2 Daniel Drake 2006-01-15 23:51:23 UTC 
poppler 0.5 will ship "pdfinfo" and "pdftotext", so in a way, we'll be using poppler on systems where it is installed :)