Saturday, August 02, 2008

Bug your distro to package OpenJPEG

The new poppler major version that will come out in a month or so, sports a new JPEG2000 decoder based in OpenJPEG that is better than the current one, for example, it renders Google scanned docs, that is good. Yay! The problem is that actually not much distros package OpenJPEG (i could only find Debian), so go to your distro bug tracker and bug them to include OpenJPEG.

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7 comments:

  1. RomanujanSaturday, August 02, 2008 9:13:00 PM

    Not only Debian - Gentoo also provides an ebuild - look here. It is marked unstable on x86 and amd64, but (interesting) it is already stable on some other architectures :)

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  2. BernhardSaturday, August 02, 2008 9:39:00 PM

    indirectly it's also available on opensuse...see here

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  3. AnonymousSaturday, August 02, 2008 10:06:00 PM

    Yay, Mandriva 2008 Spring also has it in repositories.

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  4. AnonymousSaturday, August 02, 2008 10:17:00 PM

    Fedora has openjpeg too!

    $ yum search openjpeg
    Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
    ============================== Matched: openjpeg ===============================
    openjpeg.x86_64 : OpenJPEG command line tools
    openjpeg-devel.i386 : Development files for openjpeg
    openjpeg-devel.x86_64 : Development files for openjpeg
    openjpeg-libs.i386 : JPEG 2000 codec library
    openjpeg-libs.x86_64 : JPEG 2000 codec library

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  5. AnonymousSaturday, August 02, 2008 10:44:00 PM

    ArchLinux (the one and awesome) also has it in it's repos.
    What distros did you check? =p

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  6. jjardonSaturday, August 02, 2008 10:46:00 PM

    Bug added to Ubuntu Launchpad :)

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/254294

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  7. AnonymousSunday, August 03, 2008 8:48:00 AM

    LOL@torko :)

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