Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 7.9

Chapter 10. Graphics and Font Libraries

Poppler-0.41.0

Introduction to Poppler

The Poppler package contains a PDF rendering library and command line tools used to manipulate PDF files. This is useful for providing PDF rendering functionality as a shared library.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.9 platform.

Package Information

  • Download (HTTP): http://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-0.41.0.tar.xz

  • Download MD5 sum: 849a8bd6af5794efb961b70418414e5a

  • Download size: 1.6 MB

  • Estimated disk space required: 42 MB (with Qt4 and Qt5 libraries)

  • Estimated build time: 0.7 SBU (with Qt4 and Qt5 libraries)

Additional Downloads

Poppler Encoding Data

The additional package consists of encoding files for use with Poppler. The encoding files are optional and Poppler will automatically read them if they are present. When installed, they enable Poppler to render CJK and Cyrillic properly.

Poppler Dependencies

Required

Fontconfig-2.11.1

Recommended

Cairo-1.14.6, libjpeg-turbo-1.4.2, libpng-1.6.21, and OpenJPEG-1.5.2

Optional

cURL-7.47.1, gobject-introspection-1.46.0, GTK-Doc-1.24, GTK+-2.24.29, Little CMS-1.19 or Little CMS-2.7, LibTIFF-4.0.6, OpenJPEG-2.1.0 (preference is for OpenJPEG1, due to regressions with OpenJPEG2), Qt-4.8.7 (the libpoppler-qt4.so library is needed for PDF support in Okular), and Qt-5.5.1

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/poppler

Installation of Poppler

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Note

This package can be optionally built with support for only one version of Qt4 or Qt5 or without any Qt support. You can selectively disable support for one or both, see "Command Explanations" section, below.

Install Poppler by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr               \
            --sysconfdir=/etc           \
            --disable-static            \
            --enable-build-type=release \
            --enable-cmyk               \
            --enable-xpdf-headers       \
            --with-testdatadir=$PWD/testfiles &&
make

Now, as the root user: 

make install

To install the documentation, run the following commands as root: 

install -v -m755 -d        /usr/share/doc/poppler-0.41.0 &&
install -v -m644 README*   /usr/share/doc/poppler-0.41.0 &&
cp -vr glib/reference/html /usr/share/doc/poppler-0.41.0

Poppler Data

If you downloaded the additional encoding data package, install it by issuing the following commands as the root user: 

tar -xf ../poppler-data-0.4.7.tar.gz &&
cd poppler-data-0.4.7

Now, as the root user: 

make prefix=/usr install

Command Explanations

--enable-build-type=release: This switch is used to apply a higher level of compiler optimizations. Other options are: [relwithdebinfo/debug/debugfull/profile]

--enable-cmyk: Include support for CMYK rasterization.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-xpdf-headers: Install some old Xpdf headers required by certain programs (e.g. Okular, LibreOffice and Inkscape).

--with-testdatadir=$PWD/testfiles: Tell the test programs where the auxillary files are located.

--enable-libcurl: Use libcurl for HTTP support.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

--disable-poppler-qt4: Don't compile poppler Qt4 wrapper.

--disable-poppler-qt5: Don't compile poppler Qt5 wrapper.

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 make check: Run the test suite. The environment variable LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 is only needed if the default locale does not include UTF-8.

Contents

Installed Programs: pdfdetach, pdffonts, pdfimages, pdfinfo, pdfseparate, pdftocairo, pdftohtml, pdftoppm, pdftops, pdftotext, pdfunite, and poppler-glib-demo
Installed Libraries: libpoppler.so, libpoppler-cpp.so, libpoppler-glib.so, libpoppler-qt4.so, and libpoppler-qt5.so
Installed Directories: /usr/{include,share,share/gtk-doc/html}/poppler and /usr/share/doc/poppler-0.41.0

Short Descriptions

pdfdetach

lists or extracts embedded files from PDF files.

pdffonts

lists the fonts used in a PDF file along with various information for each font.

pdfimages

saves images from a PDF file as PPM, PBM, or JPEG files.

pdfinfo

prints the contents of the 'Info' dictionary (plus some other useful information) from a PDF file.

pdfseparate

extracts single pages from a PDF file.

pdftocairo

converts a PDF file to one of several formats (PNG, JPEG, PDF, PS, EPS, SVG) using the cairo output device of the poppler library.

pdftohtml

converts a PDF file to HTML.

pdftoppm

converts PDF files to PBM, PGM and PPM formats.

pdftops

converts PDF files to Postscript format.

pdftotext

converts PDF files to plain text.

pdfunite

merges several PDF files, in the order of their occurrence on the command line, to one PDF output file.

poppler-glib-demo

is a tool to demonstrate the API, and for use when debugging and testing Poppler.

libpoppler.so

contains the API functions to render PDF files.

libpoppler-cpp.so

is a C++ backend for rendering PDF files.

libpoppler-glib.so

is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering functions with GTK+.

libpoppler-qt4.so

is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering functions with Qt4.

libpoppler-qt5.so

is a wrapper library used to interface the PDF rendering functions with Qt5.

Last updated on 2016-02-24 00:06:22 -0800