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First set of commits to do with implementing the new 'paged_html' output option of PDFPlugin that uses using xpdftools' new pdftohtml. So far tested only on Linux (64 bit), but things work there so I'm optimistically committing the changes since they work. 2. Committing the pre-built Linux binaries of XPDFtools for both 32 and 64 bit built by the XPDF group. 2. To use the correct bitness variant of xpdftools, setup.bash now exports the BITNESS env var, consulted by gsConvert.pl. 3. All the perl code changes to do with using xpdf tools' pdftohtml to generate paged_html and feed it in the desired form into GS(3): gsConvert.pl, PDFPlugin.pm and its parent ConvertBinaryPFile.pm have been modified to make it all work. xpdftools' pdftohtml generates a folder containing an html file and a screenshot for each page in a PDF (as well as an index.html linking to each page's html). However, we want a single html file that contains each individual 'page' html's content in a div, and need to do some further HTML style, attribute and structure modifications to massage the xpdftool output to what we want for GS. In order to parse and manipulate the HTML 'DOM' to do this, we're using the Mojo::DOM package that Dr Bainbridge found and which he's compiled up. Mojo::DOM is therefore also committed in this revision. Some further changes and some display fixes are required, but need to check with the others about that.
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1Subject: ANNOUNCE: Xpdf 4.00 - a PDF viewer and related tools
2
3Glyph & Cog, LLC is pleased to announce a new version of Xpdf, the
4open source Portable Document Format (PDF) viewer. The Xpdf project
5also includes a PDF text extractor, PDF-to-PostScript converter, and
6various other utilities.
7
8*** The Xpdf web site has moved to www.xpdfreader.com ***
9
10Xpdf uses the Qt toolkit and runs on Linux and Windows. The
11non-graphical components (pdftops, pdftotext, etc.) run on Linux,
12Unix, Windows, MacOSX, and pretty much any other system with a decent
13C++ compiler.
14
15Major changes:
16* Complete rewrite of the xpdf GUI, using Qt instead of Motif.
17* Multithreaded rasterization in the viewer - pages are now rasterized
18 in a separate thread so that scrolling and other UI activity is not
19 blocked.
20* Added a linear text selection mode.
21
22See the `CHANGES' file for a complete list of changes.
23
24Source (C++ and C) is available, and it should be fairly easy to
25compile for Linux and Windows.
26
27More information, source code, and precompiled binaries are on the
28xpdf web page:
29
30 http://www.xpdfreader.com/
31
32For information on commercial licensing and consulting, please see the
33Glyph & Cog web site:
34
35 http://www.glyphandcog.com/
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