Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le vendredi 28 mars 2008, à 08:48 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann a écrit :
> On Fri 28 Mar 2008 00:37:29 NZDT +1300, Klaus Singvogel wrote:
>
> > I fear that xpdf-tools are required for next, upcoming CUPS versions,
> > as there is the accepted opinion that PDF (and no more PostScript)
> > will be the internal transport format for CUPS.
>
> xpdf-tools are required fullstop. pdfinfo and pdffonts are essential
> tools with no alternatives (I don't call cranking up acroread an
> alternative, and I don't think it gives as much info either).
>
> pdftops is the only usable conversion tool handling fonts correctly,
> that abominable ghostscript rubbish has all fonts outline-traced and
> replaced with polygons and/or bitmap (type 3) fonts.
>
> I find pdfimages irreplacable too.
>
> Bottom line: xpdf-tools are indispensable. Personally I don't like to be
> without xpdf either, but I se Ludwig's point.

We should switch to poppler-tools: it provides the same tools as
xpdf-tools, and it's better for security reasons (as already pointed out
before in the thread).

Vincent

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