Re: PDF Viewer does not have continuous scrolling

[Svetlana Tkachenko]

Dear Riccardo,

> they removed one of the 
> options needed to work as a library.

Which option? Here is the xpdf upside-down (!) change-log:
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/CHANGES

Would you like me to forward your email to derekn <address@hidden>
and ask them to bring the option back? As mentioned at
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/home.html, http://freecode.com/projects/xpdf
? It is the right version, yes?

Svetlana

Riccardo Mottola <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> David Chisnall wrote:
> > Poppler is based on xpdf (effectively the xpdf core refactored as a 
> > library).  It isn’t a bad library, but due to its history it is GPLv2 (no 
> > ‘or later’ clause).  It was one of the main reasons that GNUstep remained 
> > LGPL2.1+ - moving to LGPLv3 would have made it incompatible with Poppler.  
> > The GPL in Poppler also makes it difficult to put it in a library that can 
> > be used by other things (for example, if we want to do full-text searching 
> > in PDFs then we can’t use Apache Lucene, which is Apache licensed).
> 
> I do well know these licensing issues (the other being the Linux code in 
> Terminal).
> xpdf made a leap forward and was relicensed in its latest release and 
> now contains the "or later clause". The stupid part is however that I 
> can't get PDFKit to work with the newer version, they removed one of the 
> options needed to work as a library.
> I made several attempts but failed failed and lost time. It would be 
> nice to collaborate with the guy.
> 
> Riccardo
> 
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