On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 6/26/2013 10:50 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote: > >> Hi Luigi! >> >> ········· >> >> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Hans Hagen 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