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Re: PDF Viewer does not have continuous scrolling
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Svetlana Tkachenko |
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Re: PDF Viewer does not have continuous scrolling |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Nov 2016 19:02:27 +1100 |
Dear Riccardo,
> they removed one of the
> options needed to work as a library.
Which option? Here is the xpdf upside-down (!) change-log:
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/CHANGES
Would you like me to forward your email to derekn <address@hidden>
and ask them to bring the option back? As mentioned at
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/home.html, http://freecode.com/projects/xpdf
? It is the right version, yes?
Svetlana
Riccardo Mottola <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> David Chisnall wrote:
> > Poppler is based on xpdf (effectively the xpdf core refactored as a
> > library). It isn’t a bad library, but due to its history it is GPLv2 (no
> > ‘or later’ clause). It was one of the main reasons that GNUstep remained
> > LGPL2.1+ - moving to LGPLv3 would have made it incompatible with Poppler.
> > The GPL in Poppler also makes it difficult to put it in a library that can
> > be used by other things (for example, if we want to do full-text searching
> > in PDFs then we can’t use Apache Lucene, which is Apache licensed).
>
> I do well know these licensing issues (the other being the Linux code in
> Terminal).
> xpdf made a leap forward and was relicensed in its latest release and
> now contains the "or later clause". The stupid part is however that I
> can't get PDFKit to work with the newer version, they removed one of the
> options needed to work as a library.
> I made several attempts but failed failed and lost time. It would be
> nice to collaborate with the guy.
>
> Riccardo
>
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- PDF Viewer does not have continuous scrolling, Svetlana Tkachenko, 2016/11/06
- Re: PDF Viewer does not have continuous scrolling, Riccardo Mottola, 2016/11/06
- Re: PDF Viewer does not have continuous scrolling, Svetlana Tkachenko, 2016/11/06
- Re: PDF Viewer does not have continuous scrolling, Riccardo Mottola, 2016/11/06
- Re: PDF Viewer does not have continuous scrolling, Svetlana Tkachenko, 2016/11/06
- Re: PDF Viewer does not have continuous scrolling, David Chisnall, 2016/11/07
- Re: PDF Viewer does not have continuous scrolling, Riccardo Mottola, 2016/11/07
- Re: PDF Viewer does not have continuous scrolling,
Svetlana Tkachenko <=
- Re: PDF Viewer does not have continuous scrolling, Riccardo Mottola, 2016/11/16
- Re: PDF Viewer does not have continuous scrolling, Riccardo Mottola, 2016/11/17