[Gambas-user] gitlab-ci / archlinux poppler-splash error, and Fedora inclusion

[Tony Morehen]

poppler-cpp may have table of contents items, however, I couldn't find 
them... opaque documentation and no example code.  That's what I miss 
from the microsoft world (excellent docs and code all over the 
internet).  And don't get me started about the coding practices of gnome 
and Lennart Poettering.

Their style is in sharp contrast to your own and to Linus Torvald's.

On 2020-12-04 1:58 p.m., Benoît Minisini wrote:
> Le 04/12/2020 à 14:17, Tony Morehen a écrit :
>> I understand.  Poppler-glib's page renderer does return a raw image. 
>> Hopefully, there are no gotchas.  I seem to remember I couldn't find 
>> any index entries. However, gb.poppler's simplified interface makes 
>> that irrelevant.
>>
>
> So...
>
> Either you use 'poppler-splash', and you can render the page, but it 
> won't work in the new versions of poppler.
>
> Either you use 'poppler-glib', and you have to render using Cairo, so 
> Cairo becomes a requested depency, even if you just want to draw the 
> page images with the QT library. (Same remark with 'poppler-qt5' and 
> GTK+).
>
> Or you can use 'poppler-cpp', but as that plugin is not finished, you 
> won't have any information on the actions associated with table of 
> contents items, making the table of contents useless.
>
> As you can see, it's hard to make things worse! Is there a goal to 
> make poppler usable one day?
>