RE: 2.4 Proposed Modules - gpdf

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

I am ccing gnome-accessibility-list, perhaps we can find a volunteer to
investigate the following:

On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 14:24, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 09:15, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > >   gpdf - An xpdf-based PDF viewer.
> > >   http://freshmeat.net/projects/gpdf/

I think this is a good (and very important!) accessibility candidate but
there are some _serious_ accessibility issues around PDF.

I don't know if there's time to even investigate this aspect in time for
2.4 but I'd really be grateful for someone to try.

- Bill

> > So this is meant in addition to ggv (already in the Desktop), right? I
> > believe that ggv is for viewing postscript files mostly but can also view
> > pdf files. Can gpdf view postscript files too? What's the deal with the
> > duplicated functionality?
> 
> ggv sucks rocks at viewing pdf files?  ;-)  when it doesn't crash, it
> either garbles half the documents I have, or just shows blank pages. 
> gpdf works great on all the ones I have.  ^,^
> 
> > 
> > Out of interest, what's the relationship between gpdf and xpdf. Is it a
> > fork?
> 
> I think gpdf is derived from xpdf, could be wrong.
> 
> > 
> > This file-previewer thread passed me by until now:
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-February/msg00427.htm
> > l
> > It seems like a good idea to me, and maybe it should be a proposed module
> > for 2.4. But unless something happens fast I think it's difficult to add
> > something that doesn't exist yet.
> 
> Agreed; it's a great idea, but not something to block the release over. 
> 2.6 could do it, I'm sure.
> 
> > 
> > Murray Cumming
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