Poppler-0.31.0
Introduction to Poppler
The Poppler 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.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.7
platform.
Package Information
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Download (HTTP): http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.31.0.tar.xz
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Download MD5 sum: b631498668562ba47732785e54808468
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Download size: 1.5 MB
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Estimated disk space required: 163 MB (building Qt4
libraries, test suites, and poppler-data)
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Estimated build time: 1.5 SBU (building Qt4 libraries and
test suites)
Additional Downloads
The additional package consists of encoding files for use with
Poppler. The encoding files are
optional and Poppler will
automatically read them if they are present. When installed, they
enable Poppler to render CJK and
Cyrillic properly.
Poppler Dependencies
Required
Fontconfig-2.11.1
Recommended
Cairo-1.14.0, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.0,
libpng-1.6.16, and OpenJPEG-1.5.2
Optional
cURL-7.40.0, gobject-introspection-1.42.0,
GTK-Doc-1.21, GTK+-2.24.26, Little CMS-1.19
or Little
CMS-2.6, LibTIFF-4.0.3, OpenJPEG-2.1.0
(preference is for OpenJPEG1, due to regressions with OpenJPEG2),
Qt-4.8.6
(the libpoppler-qt4.so library is
needed for PDF support in Okular),
and Qt-5.4.0
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/poppler
Installation of Poppler
In order to optionally run the test suite, an additional download
of about 9 MB using git-2.3.0 is necessary. Make sure that you do not
have the directory ../test.
rm -rf testfiles &&
git clone git://git.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/test testfiles
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
Note
This package can be optionally built with support for either the
Qt4 or Qt5 libraries, but it only builds with one of those at a
time. If you have both Qt versions installed, you will need to
specify which one to use before executing the configure command given below.
Use this command to link to Qt4:
source /usr/bin/setqt4
or use this to use Qt5:
source /usr/bin/setqt5
If you would like Poppler to
link to both Qt versions, you will need to build it twice.
Install Poppler by running the
following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--disable-static \
--enable-xpdf-headers \
--with-testdatadir=$PWD/testfiles &&
make
To test the results, issue: LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 make check.
Now, as the root user:
make install
To install the documentation, run the following commands as
root:
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/poppler-0.31.0 &&
install -v -m644 README* /usr/share/doc/poppler-0.31.0 &&
cp -vr glib/reference/html /usr/share/doc/poppler-0.31.0
Poppler Data
If you downloaded the additional encoding data package, install it
by issuing the following commands as the root user:
tar -xf ../poppler-data-.tar.gz &&
cd poppler-data-
Now, as the root user:
make prefix=/usr install
Command Explanations
--disable-static: This
switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.
--enable-xpdf-headers: Install some old
Xpdf headers required by certain
programs (e.g. Okular,
LibreOffice and Inkscape).
--with-testdatadir=$PWD/testfiles: Tell
the test programs where the auxillary files are located.
--enable-libcurl: Use libcurl for HTTP
support.
--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if
GTK-Doc is installed and you wish
to rebuild and install the API documentation.
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 make
check: Run the test suite. The environment variable
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 is only needed if the default locale does not
include UTF-8.
Contents
Installed Programs:
pdfdetach, pdffonts, pdfimages, pdfinfo,
pdfseparate, pdftocairo, pdftohtml, pdftoppm, pdftops,
pdftotext, pdfunite, and poppler-glib-demo
Installed Libraries:
libpoppler.so, libpoppler-cpp.so,
libpoppler-glib.so, libpoppler-qt4.so, and
libpoppler-qt5.so
Installed Directories:
/usr/include/poppler,
/usr/share/doc/poppler-0.31.0, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/poppler,
and /usr/share/poppler
Short Descriptions
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pdfdetach
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lists or extracts embedded files from PDF files.
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pdffonts
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lists the fonts used in a PDF file along with various
information for each font.
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pdfimages
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saves images from a PDF file as PPM, PBM, or JPEG files.
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pdfinfo
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prints the contents of the 'Info' dictionary (plus some
other useful information) from a PDF file.
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pdfseparate
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extracts single pages from a PDF file.
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pdftocairo
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converts a PDF file to one of several formats (PNG, JPEG,
PDF, PS, EPS, SVG) using the cairo output device of the
poppler library.
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pdftohtml
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converts a PDF file to HTML.
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pdftoppm
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converts PDF files to PBM, PGM and PPM formats.
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pdftops
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converts PDF files to Postscript format.
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pdftotext
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converts PDF files to plain text.
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pdfunite
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merges several PDF files, in the order of their
occurrence on the command line, to one PDF output file.
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poppler-glib-demo
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is a tool to demonstrate the API, and for use when
debugging and testing Poppler.
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libpoppler.so
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contains the API functions to render PDF files.
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libpoppler-cpp.so
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is a C++ backend for rendering PDF files.
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libpoppler-glib.so
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is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering
functions with GTK+.
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libpoppler-qt4.so
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is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering
functions with Qt4.
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libpoppler-qt5.so
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is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering
functions with Qt5.
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Last updated on 2015-02-24 20:21:19 -0500