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Hello

I love the Poppler tools. However, they only extract data from a PDF document. There are tools for

PDF --> text

PDF --> html

PDF --> xml

PDF --> PS

PDF --> PNG

All this is great. But a very important conversion is missing.

XML --> PDF

I suggest a new tool: xml2pdf which takes as input

-- an XML file

-- the required font files

-- the required image files

with an XML format like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xml2pdf>
	<meta>
		<Author>Jim Beam</Author>
		<Creator>Poppler 0.87</Creator>
		<CreationDate>2020-01-05T12:45:12Z</CreationDate>
		<ModDate>2020-01-08T18:12:47Z</ModDate>
                .....
	</meta>
	<fonts>
		<fontspec id="0" size="7" family="Arial,Bold" color="#000000" file="ArialBold.ttf" />
                .....
	</fonts>
	<page number="1" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="792" width="612">
		<image top="307" left="28.0" width="249.6" height="67.9" src="CopanyLogo.png" />
		<text top="127.3" left="474.9" width="87.1" height="15.6" font="0"><b>User Manual</b></text>
                .....
	</page>
	<outline>
		<item page="3">Manual</item>
		<item page="5">Introduction</item>
                .....
	</outline>
</xml2pdf>

putting ArialBold.ttf and CopanyLogo.png into the same folder as the XML file.