[gdal-dev] Geopdf dependency on Poppler and Visual Studio 2012

[Even Rouault]

Le vendredi 26 avril 2013 14:28:26, Jeff Lacoste a écrit :
> Thanks Joaquim. I now managed to build Poppler using freetype as its only
> dependency.
> Do we know if GDAL GeoPdf driver needs 'Poppler' to be built with other
> dependencies that can come with Poppler: lcms, icon, openjpeg, tiff, etc.
> To have Geopdf driver work correctly using 'Poppler' are these dependencies
> needed ? or all it needs is 'Freetype' and 'enable-xpdf-headers' ?

Technically, the GDAL PDF driver only requires Poppler to be configured with 
enable-xpdf-headers to compile against it. The other dependencies will be 
needed depending on the PDF documents you'll read. Freetype seems usefull 
indeed.