I heard back from iRex regarding hooking idjvu into ContentLister.
ContentLister is hard coded internally.
So I need to extend idjvu to do the manifest.xml creation trick. Nothing at all I can do about the icon ContentLister shows but on the bright side, at least ContentLister launches idjvu even if it doesn't know what it is.
Another good piece of news, I've compiled Poppler and it comes out reasonably close in size to iRex's.
I've gotten
zero cooperation out of iRex on Poppler so I'm out on a limb on this one.
I've identified the slow Jack Rabbit Benchmark performance as being a bit of code in Poppler with a note hanging from it saying something similar to: "Please don't make me optimize this, let's use libtiff instead..."
I've compiled libtiff and I'm looking at how many of its nicely written decoders I can hook into Poppler to enhance it.
Antartica's tool chain with scratchbox rulez! Highly recommended update over iRex's tool chain.