[sword-devel] pdf2xml

[Peter von Kaehne]

Greg Hellings wrote:
> That means it is looking for
> libpdf.*
> somewhere in its library directories.  That may have been from the old
> XPDF method, so you might try looking for -lpdf in the Makefile and
> changing it to -lpoppler and try again?

Thanks, this was it. I have a working binary. It does what it says on
the tin with most pdfs I have thrown at it.

Peter
> 
> --Greg
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Peter von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
>> Thanks to some makefiles which I have received offline I can now compile.
>>
>> It fails though during linking, I think:
>>
>>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpdf
>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>> make: *** [pdf2xml] Error 1
>> Anyone can tell me what this means?
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> Greg Hellings wrote:
>>> I'm running into significant challenges building it with their
>>> Makefiles, mainly related to them using some version of GString that
>>> results in either 1) not including the file the declares it or, 2)
>>> including a file which does not declare the proper GString type.
>>>
>>> Beyond that, there are more errors all over the place in the code.  It
>>> must be expecting a very old version of the dependent libraries OR the
>>> developers did not leave CVS in a useful state when they abandoned it.
>>>
>>> My guess is, use the Windows binary and pray that it actually works.
>>>
>>> --Greg
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Peter von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
>>>> A user of our software advised me of this piece of software which I
>>>> think might occasionally come handy:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.mobipocket.com/dev/pdf2xml/
>>>>
>>>> It appears that it can deal with embedded fonts  and produces apparently
>>>> excellently structured output. I have unfortunately not managed to
>>>> compile it despite thinking it should be straightforward.
>>>>
>>>> There is no make file, just a short explanation for compiling, which I
>>>> seemingly completely misunderstood.
>>>>
>>>> What I did at the toplevel of the source directory was
>>>>
>>>> gcc -I xpdf -I xpdf/fofi -I xpdf/goo -I xpdf/xpdf -I image/zlib -I
>>>> image/png -I /usr/include pdf2xml.cpp
>>>>
>>>> But this was obviously wrong. It produced a huge pile of error messages
>>>> suggesting that it did not find all kinds of libpng related stuff. I
>>>> have obviously installed libpoppler-dev and libpng-dev.
>>>>
>>>> I am aware of a whole bunch of public domain texts which are only
>>>> published in PDF format but would suddenly become accessible to us.
>>>>
>>>> Peter
>>>>
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