Poppler-0.57.0
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-8.1
platform.
Package Information
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-2.12.4
Recommended
Cairo-1.14.10, libjpeg-turbo-1.5.2,
libpng-1.6.31, NSS-3.32, and OpenJPEG-1.5.2
Optional
cURL-7.55.1, gobject-introspection-1.52.1,
GTK-Doc-1.26, GTK+-2.24.31, Little CMS-1.19
or Little
CMS-2.8, LibTIFF-4.0.8, OpenJPEG-2.2.0
(preference is for OpenJPEG1, due to regressions with OpenJPEG2),
and Qt-5.9.1 (required for PDF support in Okular-17.08.0)
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/poppler
Installation of Poppler
Install Poppler by running the
following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--disable-static \
--enable-build-type=release \
--enable-cmyk \
--enable-xpdf-headers \
--with-testdatadir=$PWD/testfiles &&
make
In order to run the test suite, some testcases are needed and can
be obtained only from a git repository. The command to download
them is: git clone
git://git.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/test
testfiles. Then issue: LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 make check. It
seems that only the Qt4/5 libraries are tested.
Now, as the root user:
make install
To install the documentation, run the following commands as
root:
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/poppler-0.57.0 &&
install -v -m644 README* /usr/share/doc/poppler-0.57.0 &&
cp -vr glib/reference/html /usr/share/doc/poppler-0.57.0
Poppler Data
If you downloaded the additional encoding data package, install it
by issuing the following commands:
tar -xf ../poppler-data-0.4.8.tar.gz &&
cd poppler-data-0.4.8
Now, as the root user:
make prefix=/usr install
Command Explanations
--enable-build-type=release: This
switch is used to apply a higher level of compiler optimizations.
Other options are: [relwithdebinfo/debug/debugfull/profile]
--enable-cmyk: Include
support for CMYK rasterization.
--disable-static: This
switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.
--enable-xpdf-headers:
Install some old Xpdf headers
required by certain programs (e.g. Okular, LibreOffice and Inkscape).
--with-testdatadir=$PWD/testfiles:
Tell the test programs where the auxiliary 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.
--disable-poppler-qt5: Don't compile
poppler Qt5 wrapper, when Qt5 is installed. Note that Qt5 support
is required for PDF support in Okular-17.08.0.
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, pdfsig, pdftocairo, pdftohtml, pdftoppm, pdftops,
pdftotext, pdfunite, and poppler-glib-demo
Installed Libraries:
libpoppler.so, libpoppler-cpp.so,
libpoppler-glib.so, and libpoppler-qt5.so
Installed Directories:
/usr/{include,share,share/gtk-doc/html}/poppler and
/usr/share/doc/poppler-0.57.0
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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pdfsig
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verifies the digital signatures in a PDF document.
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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-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 2017-08-23 19:39:45 -0700