Re: GNOME Ghostview and plug ins

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel gnu org>]

> I have been thinking what the "next generation" GhostView viewer
> should be like. One feature that seems missing from GV is the ability
> to apply filters to the document. For instance, I want my document
> printed "2up" or with the words "draft" in gray in the background, or
> save part of the page as a TIFF or JPG, or I want to add page numbers
> to the pages...

Sounds like a good plan.

The way I would do "plugins" would be to have plain filter files
installed in a special location (or visible in a special location to
ggv) and list those as the possible filters that can be applied.

Miguel