Qpdf-10.3.1

Introduction to Qpdf

The Qpdf package contains command-line programs and a library that does structural, content-preserving transformations on PDF files.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-10.1 platform.

Download (HTTP): https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf/releases/download/release-qpdf-10.3.1/qpdf-10.3.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: b66ac07ec2e75ae5121da5470b7a7015
Download size: 18 MB
Estimated disk space required: 321 MB (add 51 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU (using parallelism=4; add 1.8 SBU for tests)

Install Qpdf by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/qpdf-10.3.1 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

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

Installed Programs: fix-qdf, qpdf, and zlib-flate

Installed Library: libqpdf.so

Installed Directories: /usr/include/qpdf and /usr/share/doc/qpdf-10.3.1

fix-qdf	is used to repair PDF files in QDF form after editing
qpdf	is used to convert one PDF file to another equivalent PDF file
zlib-flate	is a raw zlib compression program
`libqpdf.so`	contains the Qpdf API functions

Last updated on 2021-03-16 00:08:09 -0500