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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Moving kpdf from kdenonbeta to kdegraphics
From:       Simon Hausmann <hausmann () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-08-15 6:05:49
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On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 09:27:55PM -0300, Helio Chissini de Castro wrote:
> Hello
> 
> After some IRC with oelewapperker, they agreed that kpdf is ready to go 
> mainstream, and go away from nonbeta to something logical.
> I'm willing to move to kdegraphics after follow the CVS rules ( test, check, 
> double check, license check ), since the pdf engine is more efficient than gv 
> itself, and we always have kghost as an alternative.
> 
> Wait some to comments..

While I very much like the idea of kpdf being based on xpdf
(preferring xpdf over gs/gv, too) it concerns me that it comes with
a copy of the whole xpdf sources. Thinking less of new xpdf features
but than of security updates in those sources that one would have to
track and apply to the forked codebase. Have you tried talking to
the xpdf author about making a shared library?


Simon
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