[Sugar-devel] [Browse] PDFs inline

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Lucian Branescu
<lucian.branescu at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've seen your merge request on
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/browse/repos/inline-pdf.
>
> Since I've been working on Browse-webkit, I'd like to implement inline
> PDFs for it as well. However, evince maintainers are very hostile to
> browser plugins, NPAPI or otherwise
> (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168933).
>

I used mozplugger to do this.

> I'd like your advice on how to handle this feature within
> Browse-webkit. pywebkitgtk has the capability to embed widgets just
> like you'd embed NPAPI plugins. Should I embed evince or work with
> poppler directly?
>

It may be a good idea - but it may be even better to have a simple PDF
viewer widget (which incorporates an "add to journal" button) using
the evince-python bindings.

Thanks,
Sayamindu


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