Re: Overriding pdfview

[Philipp Gesang <Philipp.Gesang@alumni.uni-heidelberg.de>]

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> On 6/26/2013 10:50 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote:
> >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.
> 
> FYI: After Luigi and I have wrapped up the projects "swiglib"
> (libraries) and "speed-up-luatex" projects we will start our
> "lua-in-pdf-viewer" exploration (after all pdf permits additional
> annotations) ... and we need challenges.

Do you plan on making the PDF internals as transparent and easy
to manipulate as Luatex does with TeX?

Looking forward to it!

Best,
Philipp

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