[mapserver-users] Ubuntu libpdf support for Mapserver

[Daniel Morissette]

Roger André wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm just about done building a fresh copy of Mapserver 5.2 on my Ubuntu 
> 8.04 machine and have one final snag to overcome - PDF support.  I've 
> specified "--with-pdf" in my compile options, but when I look carefully, 
> I see "libpdf not found or too old", and my resulting mapserv executable 
> lacks PDF support.  Problem is that there doesn't seem to be a "libpdf", 
> or "pdflib" package for Ubuntu, so I'm not really sure what to do.
> 

You could get the PDFLib lite source from 
http://www.pdflib.com/download/pdflib-family/pdflib-lite/ and compile it 
locally on your system. The usual 'configure; make; make install' recipe 
should install it to /usr/local/bin by default, and then using 
--with-pdf=/usr/local on your Mapserver configure line should do the trick.

Please see also the README.CONFIGURE file in the MapServer source 
package which has some notes about building PDFLib vs libpng and zlib 
that you may need to take into account... i.e. you may have to configure 
your pdflib '--with-pnglib --with-zlib' as it is suggested there.

Daniel
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Daniel Morissette
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