Re: GWorkspace, PDFkit & freetype

> Hi,
>
> a late answer, but some work was involved.
>>
>> which occurs immediately after the start line above, changing  
>> directory to "splash" and starting to execute "make" in that  
>> directory, which comes immediately after the start line noted above  
>> --  even though the "missing" file actually exists in the path(s)  
>> provided to "configure".
>>
>> I will see if I can resolve the problem, or if anyone else has a  
>> solution.  Is there another list I should post to?  I will do a  
>> follow-up post if I find out anything useful.
>>
>> Thanks for the input.  I'll can also, as you suggest, see how I get  
>> on without PDFKit, but my impression from the Gworkspace web page  
>> was that Gworkspace *requires* it, rather than just suggesting it  
>> as an option.
>>
>
> PDFKit is not essential for GWorkspace to build, however I  
> understand it is handy. Since it was lastly maintained by Enrico, it  
> is in the state of lack of maintenance as most of his other  
> applications.
>
> I have thus decided to import PDFkit into GAP in the "libs"  
> category: this allows to have a common up-to-date repository of the  
> files and also preserves it from disappearing. I do not have however  
> the time to work on it currently, since I am for example busy with  
> other applications by enrico which are now in GAP.
>
> Richard Stonehouse kindly worked out some patches that make PDFkit  
> compile again, I have tried them and it works for me. They are  
> already in CVS.
>
> There is no official release yet because there are some bugs to be  
> investigated.
>
> Furthermore if anybody wishes to help, a task would be to check what  
> version of xpdf PDFKit was based on and update it as much as  
> possible to track xpdf.
>
> Riccardo
>
>
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