Contributor
UddhavPhatak

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++.