about poppler

[Michael Sweet]

Jonathan Smith wrote:
>> Franz Pfoertsch wrote:
>> poppler is a fork of Xpdf focused on producing a common PDF rendering
>> library.  It is functionally equivalent to Xpdf for PS output.
>> [snip]
>> That said, it is unlikely we'll make the switch to poppler any sooner
>> than CUPS 1.4.
> 
> Any update here? xpdf has just suffered another slew of security problems, unfortunately.
> 
> If you guys need any manpower to get this done, I'd be happy to help in any way possible. I package cups for a linux distro and the time it would take to make cups use poppler would be well worth it going forward so I wouldn't have to backport xpdf fixes :)

We have patches already, thanks.  They just haven't been integrated
in trunk yet (and that will happen over the next several months).

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