Replace QPDF by PDFio as PDF manipulation library in libcupsfilters
- Mentors
- Till Kamppeter, Ira McDonald, Dheeraj, Rishabh Maheshwari, Deepak Patankar, Akshit Chauhan
- Organization
- The Linux Foundation
- Technologies
- c, cups
- Topics
- printing
This project focuses on standardization of the libcupsfilters code into C. As the
libcupsfilters library is principally written in regular C and not C++ due to the issues
which would occur due to use of C++.
But libcupsfilters still depend on one library which is written in C++, QPDF, a library for
manipulation of PDF files.
We need to replace this dependency on C++, with another library PDFio. This is a PDF
handling and manipulation library, as QPDF is, but it is fully written in standard, regular
C, not in C++.