Week 12 + Week 13: Everything merged, Final GSoC blog

Hello everyone!

My Google Summer of Code project Font Subsetting in Poppler has technically been completed with this MR getting merged.

Poppler now supports Font Subsetting and a new release is going to be out soon. Although the work has been rigorously tested for regressions on a lot of PDF files, I am still quite nervous :D

Here's a demo video I made for font subsetting:

Experience

Overall, GSoC was a very enriching experience. I learnt many things I didn't know before such as PDF internals, some C++ and CMake features and sharpened my debugging skills using GDB.
But it was also a very tough experience, there were a lot of times when I thought I was going to fail.

I'll also be attending Akademy in Graz so I hope to meet and learn from a lot of contributors from there!

Gratitude

I am grateful to god for providing me with such an opportunity.

I would like to thank my mentor Albert Astals Cid for mentoring me throughout GSoC.
Huge thanks to the people from the Poppler community, Sune Vuorela, Lucas Baudin and everyone for helping me with my technical doubts in the Matrix IRC.
Thanks to the KDE mentorship team and the board members for managing the GSoC program!