PPA outdated packages

[crspl]

Any chances to get updated packages in PPA?

[coolwanglu]

Sorry I've been very busy recently. I'll update the PPA as soon as I can.

[crspl]

That would be great. Thanks in advance and thank you for this great tool :)

[coolwanglu]

I found it difficult to pack a recent version of Fontforge. I wonder if any one could help.
For now, please refer to https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX/blob/master/.travis.yml as a rough instruction to build on Ubuntu.

[djvs]

please note that these instructions will fail without libltdl-dev >.<

[coolwanglu]

@djvs at which step will it fail without libltdl ? It could be the problem that I could not build the Fontforge package. Thanks!

[djvs]

i skimmed this too quick, was trying to install pdf2htmlEX itself, not being aware the PPA was working for that. however, yes, i think it will fail somewhere in line 12 without libltdl.

[uttamk]

Even with libltdl, font forge seems to have issues compiling on Ubuntu 14. It seems to work fine with the older version of libfontforge-dev, but there is warning that pdf2htmlex is compiled with an unsupported version. What can potentially break with the older fontforge library (because it seems to work just fine for a few pdfs that I tested)??

[coolwanglu]

@uttamk If you go through the issues of pdf2htmlEX, most crashes are caused by outdated Fontforge. It has been nearly 2 years now, and many bugs have been fixed.

[coolwanglu]

Another failed try today. log
Probably I won't spend more time on this recently.

[pengux]

@coolwanglu may I suggest creating a docker container so it can be used anywhere that support docker?

[coolwanglu]

@pengux It could be good idea, but I'm not familiar with it myself. I'd like to include it in the wiki if anyone is interested.

[rpedela]

In addition to updating the PPA, could you add one for Ubuntu 14.04?

[rpedela]

I was able to build the pdf2htmlEX branch of FontForge on Ubuntu 14.04. Is this still a problem for others?

[Neamar]

Building is not a problem, it's the ppa that's the issue here. I guess there is some constraints to publish a package

[cdeblois]

Has anyone an instructional on how to install/build pdf2htmlEX for 14.04?

[klokoy]

I agree with @pengux . A docker container would be very appreciated.

[klokoy]

I have released a docker image with pdf2htmlEX.

[pengux]

👍 Thanks!

[cdelgadob]

Great! Which ubuntu and pdf2htmlex versions do you use?

[coolwanglu]

Thanks @klokoy , if you can help maintain the image, can you add it to the wiki page "download" ?

[klokoy]

I will do that as soon as I have time.

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[klokoy]

I added a link to the docker image in the download page. This is an automated build docker image so new versions can easily be created by pushing pull requests to this repository: https://github.com/klokoy/pdf2htmlEX_docker

[coolwanglu]

Fixed, finally

[Siddhant]

Fixed, finally

What about Ubuntu Utopic ?

[coolwanglu]

@Siddhant I'll upgrade my ubuntu and test it before uploading the package.

[coolwanglu]

@Siddhant Just found that Utopic is not supported by Fontforge PPA, so we might need to wait for a while.

[Siddhant]

@coolwanglu : Ah!
I've opened a fontforge issue (fontforge/fontforge/issues/1922). You can subscribe to that to get notified when it is resolved.

[coolwanglu]

@Siddhant Thanks!

[Siddhant]

@coolwanglu A Utopic package for fontforge is now available. Can you now try to upload a Ubuntu Utopic package for pdf2htmlEX ?

[MarcGodard]

Is there a PPA for this again yet?

[egrubbs]

You can try https://launchpad.net/~edwin-grubbs/+archive/ubuntu/ppa for trusty. It also updates poppler, pdf.js and fontforge.