Package poppler115: Information
Source package: poppler115
Version: 21.11.0-alt4
Build time: Mar 9, 2022, 02:34 PM
Category: Publishing
Report package bugHome page: http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
License: GPL-2.0-or-later
Summary: PDF rendering library
Description:
Poppler is a fork of the xpdf PDF viewer developed by Derek Noonburg of Glyph and Cog, LLC. The purpose of forking xpdf is twofold. First, we want to provide PDF rendering functionality as a shared library, to centralize the maintenence effort. Today a number of applications incorporate the xpdf code base, and whenever a security issue is discovered, all these applications exchange patches and put out new releases. In turn, all distributions must package and release new version of these xpdf based viewers. It's safe to say that there's a lot of duplicated effort with the current situaion. Even if poppler in the short term introduces yet another xpdf derived code base to the world, we hope that over time these applications will adopt poppler. After all, we only need one application to use poppler to break even.
Maintainer: Sergey V Turchin
List of contributors:
Sergey V Turchin
Nikita Ermakov
Dmitry V. Levin
Vladimir Lettiev
qa-robot
Andrey Semenov
Sergey V Turchin
Nikita Ermakov
Dmitry V. Levin
Vladimir Lettiev
qa-robot
Andrey Semenov
Last changed
March 9, 2022 Sergey V Turchin 21.11.0-alt4
- build only compat library
Dec. 1, 2021 Sergey V Turchin 21.11.0-alt3
- fix libpoppler_cpp package name
Nov. 30, 2021 Sergey V Turchin 21.11.0-alt2
- rename source package name