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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

I download xpdf precompiled for linux and unpacked it at / (it made its 
own directory) and followed the INSTALL directions after gzipping the man 
files.

xpdf 3.00 is about 6.3MB, the 2000 (SW71) version being aboug 400K
The new pddtotext and other console programs are around 1MB (pdftoppm, 
which replaces a few other things is about 2m).  The old ones are about 
250K.

I have not been able to test xpdf yet because, tho it does not require 
libxtdc++ which the old version does, it has a lot of new dependences:
libXmu, libXt, libXp (which was not needed for Xvesa, icewm, or opera), 
libXext.  Both versions need libXpm, libSM, libICE, libX11, libm libc 
ldlinux.

I tested pdftops and it produces a file just slightly smaller than the old 
version did.  I have also pdf2ps (don't know from where) which produces a 
ps file twice the size of the others.

I think the enormous increase in size has something to do with including
Truetype1 fonts but I did not follow this.  It is statically compiled with
some other large libraries.  Perhaps there is a way to compile it smaller.  
I would be perfectly happy if it displayed all files with just courier.  
99% of what I have to look at in pdf has no text in it anyway and should
have been sent as a plain image file.

I can post the CHANGES if anyone is interested.  

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> I was going to look at the SW8.1 package except first I wrote Doug Kaufman 
> (who compiled the console parts of xpdf for us last year) and he informed 
> me that:
> 
> 1.  xpdf 3.0 is the first version to handle pdf 1.5 (the latest Adobe 6.0)
> and came out Jan 22, 2004, so probably is not what you find in SW8.1.
> 
> 2.  xpdf is available precompiled for linux already -4.55MB download from 
> www.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf.  It requires glibc 2.2 (SW8.1 provides glibc 
> 2.2.5 - just upgrade by installpkg the glibc 2.2.5 so file that is also 
> needed to run precompiled Opera 7).  It is statically linked to motif, 
> t1lib and Freetype 2 (which are provided in source frm in case you want to 
> compile your own version instead).  But as Doug said, why bother?  (Unless 
> of course you want to use xpdf in BL3, or in BL2 without upgrading glibc).
> 
> The console parts of xpdf (pdftops, pdftotext, pdfimages, pdfinfo) are 
> available precompiled for Win32  and for DOS (!) - 1.8MB.