app-emacs/pdf-tools/metadata.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">

<pkgmetadata>
  <maintainer type="project">
    <email>gnu-emacs@gentoo.org</email>
    <name>Gentoo GNU Emacs project</name>
  </maintainer>
  <longdescription>
    PDF Tools is, among other things, a replacement of DocView for PDF files.
    The key difference is that pages are not pre-rendered by e.g. ghostscript
    and stored in the file-system, but rather created on-demand and stored in
    memory. This rendering is performed by a special library named, for
    whatever reason, poppler, running inside a server program. This program is
    called epdfinfo and its job is to successively read requests from Emacs and
    produce the proper results, i.e. the PNG image of a PDF page. Actually,
    displaying PDF files is just one part of pdf-tools. Since poppler can
    provide us with all kinds of information about a document and is also able
    to modify it, there is a lot more we can do with it.
  </longdescription>
  <upstream>
    <bugs-to>https://github.com/vedang/pdf-tools/issues/</bugs-to>
    <remote-id type="github">vedang/pdf-tools</remote-id>
  </upstream>
</pkgmetadata>