Bug 412423 – media-gfx/swftools-0.9.2: pdf support dropped until fixed

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description László Szalma 2012-04-17 21:30:57 UTC]

The 0.9.2 version doesn't build with poppler. The bundled xpdf compiles, but it's against the Gentoo policy (am I right?), and the poppler support is on the way (as the maintainer said).

At the moment, the pdf2swf build is disabled.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
compile with enable-poppler doesn't work

Expected Results:  
compile with poppler

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-04-17 21:40:15 UTC]

1) Please post your `emerge --info' output in a comment.
2) Please attach the entire build log to this bug report.

Alternatively, provide an upstream bug report/conversation.

[Comment 2 László Szalma 2012-04-18 06:40:13 UTC]

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332649#c30

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2012-04-08 20:11:53 CEST

(Hi, I'm the swftools maintainer)

For the record, swftools uses a patched xpdf- it's quite different from the original xpdf, because swftools uses xpdf as a low-level PDF parser, not a rendering engine. Inkscape does something similar (and also contains parts of the xpdf sources).
The patched version also contains some fixes for bugs and security issues. (See the file lib/pdf/xpdf-changes.patch)

I am, however, working on getting swftools to link against poppler instead (with the help of Christian Wenzel.)

In the mean time, shipping it without pdf2swf sounds like a good idea.
"

the current ebuild builds fine because it disables the pdf2swf at all.

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2012-04-18 08:35:15 UTC]

Looks like László wants to have this bug to remember the issue and also for reference to people looking for this missing feature ;)

[Comment 4 Jakub Jirutka 2012-11-30 20:11:04 UTC]

I’d like to just ask, is anyone working on this issue? I need swftools with PDF support for Alfresco DMS. I build it without poppler with no problem but it doesn’t work very well so hope that with poppler it could be better.

[Comment 5 Denis Kaganovich 2016-10-24 14:39:54 UTC]

I successfully build pdf2swf (0.9.2 & 2013-04-09-1007) with poppler-0.48.0 with this patches: https://github.com/pld-linux/swftools in order:
epatch "${FILESDIR}"/swftools-poppler{,2,-0.32}.patch

[Comment 6 Denis Kaganovich 2016-10-24 14:52:09 UTC]

Created attachment 451324 [details]
media-gfx/swftools-0.9.2-r2.ebuild

Also pkg-config required. This is complete ebuild with patches over SRC_URI. For pure 0.9.2 version - uncomment 2 lines.

[Comment 7 Pacho Ramos 2018-10-13 10:35:59 UTC]

it fails to build in my case:
cd pdf;make libgfxpdf
make[2]: Entering directory '/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/swftools-0.9.2-r2/work/swftools-0.9.2/lib/pdf'
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/fontconfig -I /usr/include/lame  -fPIC -fPIC -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wno-write-strings -Wformat -O -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -pipe -march=native -fno-stack-protector -I/usr/include/poppler -I ./  VectorGraphicOutputDev.cc -o VectorGraphicOutputDev.o
cc1plus: warning: command line option '-Wimplicit' is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/fontconfig -I /usr/include/lame  -fPIC -fPIC -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wno-write-strings -Wformat -O -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -pipe -march=native -fno-stack-protector -I/usr/include/poppler -I ./  BitmapOutputDev.cc -o BitmapOutputDev.o
cc1plus: warning: command line option '-Wimplicit' is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++
BitmapOutputDev.cc: In constructor 'CopyStream::CopyStream(Stream*, int)':
BitmapOutputDev.cc:1860:51: error: use of deleted function 'Object::Object(T) [with T = CopyStream*]'
  this->memstream = new MemStream(buf, 0, len, this);
                                                   ^
In file included from popplercompat.h:112:0,
                 from InfoOutputDev.h:24,
                 from CharOutputDev.h:9,
                 from BitmapOutputDev.h:28,
                 from BitmapOutputDev.cc:24:
/usr/include/poppler/Object.h:169:24: note: declared here
   template<typename T> Object(T) = delete;
                        ^~~~~~
make[2]: *** [Makefile:55: BitmapOutputDev.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/swftools-0.9.2-r2/work/swftools-0.9.2/lib/pdf'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:192: libgfxpdf.a] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/swftools-0.9.2-r2/work/swftools-0.9.2/lib'
make: *** [Makefile:10: all] Error 2

[Comment 8 Michał Górny 2019-04-28 20:14:04 UTC]

Package removed.