From: Marc de Falco <marc@de-falco.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] lablgtk and pdf
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:02:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d2c83f640912010802p4a3d8944k3f7be53319a0408a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091201154807.GD12568@localhost>
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It might be better to produce a svg and then display the svg trough cairo.
I don't know if there are bindings available in OCaml to do that (mainly for
librsvg).
2009/12/1 Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 02:09:27AM +0000, Ewen Maclean wrote:
> > I am generating pdf images from latex source, and I would like to
> > show them on screen in part of a pane in lablgtk2. Is it possible to
> > do this using a GImage widget or something similar?
>
> I think you will have to render the PDF first into a simple image
> format like PPM, and then use GTK to display that. I don't know of
> any OCaml bindings for libpoppler, but you can use the standalone
> program "pdftoppm" from the poppler-utils package. Then you can
> display the .ppm file as follows:
>
> let file = Sys.argv.(1) in
> GMain.init ();
> let window = GWindow.window ~title: "Show Image" () in
> let image = GMisc.image ~file ~packing: window#add () in
> window#connect#destroy ~callback: GMain.quit;
> window#show ();
> GMain.main ()
>
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2009-12-01 2:09 Ewen Maclean
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