From: Philipp Gesang <Philipp.Gesang@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Overriding pdfview
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 22:50:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130626205005.GA22202@phlegethon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG5iGsAJNH1cLqsQF+Ef-rC2tKhNgx5muQwz60mT7J-4Pq60VQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Luigi!
···<date: 2013-06-26, Wednesday>···<from: luigi scarso>···
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
> >
> > while sumatrapdf
> >
> > - is pretty fast
> > - has matured quite well
> > - remembers the current page
> > - renders quite ok
> > - even supports some basic interactivity
> > - (has an ugly yellow pop up windows but those can nowadays be recolored)
> > - can be installed as portable application
> > - works ok wine/linux (in fact has my preference now when on linux)
> >
> > I have to admit that I often think to a context pdf viewer, and mupdf
> seems the right candidate.
> Under ubuntu 64bit 12.04 xpdf doesn't work, acroreader is still 9 32 bit
> (so I use wine acroreader 11)
> evince is ok, probably also okular.
> A context pdf viewer should be like sumatrapdf at least --- so in the end
> I also installed sumatrapdf.exe under linux .
>
> Now that I have done a luatex binding for mupdf,
> if we have a minimal GUI toolkit cross platform (but really minimal)
> it's possible to build a pdfviewer in luatex
If you’re serious about this, the Zathura guys have a separate
interface library based on GTK [1]. Having some (any) Lua
capability inside a pdf viewer would indeed be nice.
Best,
Philipp
[1] <http://pwmt.org/projects/girara/>.
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-26 13:53 Bill Meahan
2013-06-26 14:20 ` luigi scarso
2013-06-26 15:17 ` Bill Meahan
2013-06-26 16:11 ` luigi scarso
2013-06-26 19:29 ` Hans Hagen
2013-06-26 20:22 ` luigi scarso
2013-06-26 20:36 ` Siep Kroonenberg
2013-06-26 21:09 ` luigi scarso
2013-06-26 20:50 ` Philipp Gesang [this message]
2013-06-26 20:58 ` Hans Hagen
2013-06-26 21:16 ` luigi scarso
2013-06-26 21:34 ` Philipp Gesang
2013-06-27 15:15 ` Sietse Brouwer
2013-06-27 15:44 ` Mica Semrick
2013-06-27 17:25 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-06-27 19:39 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2013-06-27 18:18 ` Hans Hagen
2013-06-26 21:27 ` Bill Meahan
2013-06-26 22:24 ` Hans Hagen
2013-06-26 23:02 ` Bill Meahan
2013-06-27 7:21 ` luigi scarso
2013-06-27 2:21 ` hwitloc
2013-06-27 7:35 ` luigi scarso
2013-06-27 8:13 ` Hans Hagen
[not found] <mailman.1497.1372359752.2084.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2013-06-27 19:43 ` Pavneet Arora
2013-06-27 22:44 ` luigi scarso
2013-06-27 23:46 ` Sietse Brouwer
2013-06-27 23:53 ` Gareth Jones
2013-06-28 8:56 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-06-28 10:34 ` Hans Hagen
2013-06-28 13:16 ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-07-01 2:31 ` David Rogers
2013-06-28 8:28 ` Hans Hagen
2013-06-28 2:29 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2013-06-28 6:23 ` luigi scarso
2013-06-28 8:29 Keith J. Schultz
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