Re: Overriding pdfview

[luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Hans
>
>
yes, approximately/hopefully end of next year, and suggestions are all
welcome, of course --- and the meeting is a nice place to discuss these
kind of things.
Of course  a good solution has small size, it is fast and works in the same
way at least under Windows/Linux/Mac.


-- 
luigi

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