[Sugar-devel] [Browse] PDFs inline

[Lucian Branescu]

On 18 July 2010 18:54, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
That's what I meant, I'll make a widget with a small toolbar which
embeds evince (libevview).

I do seem to have a problem with evince 2.30, they seem to have broken
their API. http://library.gnome.org/devel/libevview/2.30/
>
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu
>
>
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> Sayamindu Dasgupta
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