Changes between Version 58 and Version 59 of WikiStart


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Aug 24, 2016, 3:39:32 AM (8 years ago)
Author:
Lewis Rosenthal
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Added temporary note about poppler upgrade. Remove this when we build against libpoppler-cpp. Removed mention of qPDFView. Minor changes.

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    33Lucide is a plugin based document viewer for OS/2 and derivative operating systems, which currently supports PDF, !DjVu, and a number of image format files (JPG, through the included plugin, and many bitmap formats through the Generalised Bitmap Module, available [http://heikon.home.tlink.de/ here]. Support for new document types may be added as additional plugins.
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     5== Important Note ==
     6If you are currently testing Lucide 1.3.6 RC2a, and find that after upgrading poppler beyond 0.42.0 you can no longer load the PDF plugin to view PDFs, please review the notes in ticket #297.
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    68== Current Status ==
     
    1416Development of Lucide has been renewed as of December, 2015, in cooperation with Arca Noae, LLC and affiliated developers. Further details regarding new releases will be made as work progresses.
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    16 For the latest release, see '''Latest Versions''', below.
     18For the latest releases, see '''Latest Versions''', below.
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    4951== Latest Versions ==
    50 The latest stable version is '''1.3.5''', released September 14, 2012. The list of changes may be found [source:/tags/1.3.5/Lucide/changelog here]. The latest beta version is '''1.3.6 RC2a''', dated August 20, 2016, and its changelog may be found [source:/trunk/Lucide/changelog here].
     52The latest '''stable''' version is '''1.3.5''', released September 14, 2012. The list of changes may be found [source:/tags/1.3.5/Lucide/changelog here].
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     54The latest '''beta''' version is '''1.3.6 RC2a''', dated August 20, 2016, and its changelog may be found [source:/trunk/Lucide/changelog here].
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    5256Lucide is available for downloading in the following packages and formats:
     
    5559||Lucide executable and plugins||[ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/lucide/Lucide-1_3_5_GA.zip ZIP]||1.3.5||updated poppler lib||
    5660||Lucide executable and plugins||[ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/lucide/Lucide-1.3.6-release-candidate-2a.zip ZIP]||1.3.6 RC2a||Release Candidate 2a||
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    5863== Mailing Lists ==
     
    8590You may download the sources for all of our plugins directly from the svn repository. If you have any problems, please post to the developer list.
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    87  * The svn trunk contains all external libraries (poppler, libdjvu, libjpg) and the source for all Lucide plugins. (Note that one of the new design goals is to remove Lucide's dependence on special library builds and to utilize the system-installed ones.)
     92 * The svn trunk contains some external libraries (libdjvu, libjpg) and the source for all Lucide plugins. (Note that one of the new design goals is to remove Lucide's dependence on special library builds and to utilize the system-installed ones. Thus, poppler is no longer included in this repository.)
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    9095=== Building Lucide ===
    91 
    9296 * BuildingInstructions (somewhat outdated)
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    95 == Alternatives ==
    96 If you're looking for an alternative to Lucide, please take a look at  [http://svn.netlabs.org/qtapps/wiki/QT4%20Office QT4 Office Apps] and search for QPDFView.