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Image[edit]

The image currently used in this article, Image:Xpdf-screenshot.png, is used under fair use and could easily be replaced by a free image. Please see the image's talk page for more details. --Fritz S. (Talk) 12:12, 26 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Security holes in Xpdf?[edit]

It was my understanding (from asking Evince developers) that poppler forked/branched from Xpdf without acrimony because the developers had different goals and the XPdf developer had little interest in maintaining a generic library. That is not to say there weren't any security holes in Xpdf but where is the proof that was a signficant motivating factor. In any case shouldn't that information be in the Poppler article? The spec file from Poppler goes into more detail and better reuse of code is cited. Although security issues are mentioned it does not seem like they were a primary motivation compared to better software engineering. http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/jds/spec-files/trunk/poppler.spec

Xpdf and poppler in the same article[edit]

Makes no sense, they are two totally different software, just one has its origins in the other, or would you suggest also having all the BSD in the same page? Or KHTML and WebKit in the same page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.17.252.99 (talk) 18:01, 27 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Discuss this with the admins: The separate article on poppler (software) was deleted to be merged into this.--Oneiros (talk) 18:45, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's because there is nothing much to say on the other software, other than it uses this and was named after a Futurama episode. --98.217.14.211 (talk) 18:18, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You just don't know more - but sure there is.--Wondigoma (talk) 08:53, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I also can see the inclusion of the poppler stuff to the Xpdf article only as an interim solution. It deserves its own article on the long run since it is an important piece of software.
As for the deletion of the poppler article: The reason for the deletion proposal was that there seemed to be no verifyable information. If this was the case things should have changed by now, I think.--Wondigoma (talk) 08:53, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

pdfimages[edit]

pdfimages redirects here but there is no info about it. pdfimages seems to be found in either poppler-utils or xpdf-utils. Will leave it for a knowledgeable person to fix (took me a while to figure this much out). --Chriswaterguy talk 01:39, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

References[edit]

Xpdf is described in several books by Roderick W. Smith Page including 978-0789722836 including the The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook ... p.412 in a section Xpdf and BePDF. Haven't got time to add this to article.Djm-leighpark (talk) 11:14, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]