Re: gtk, cairo and pdf

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Allin Cottrell wrote:
> I haven't had time to look into cairo's capacities in depth.  I 
> wonder if anyone could give me a quick reading on this: the app I 
> mostly work on is statistical, and it would be nice to be able to 
> present various formulae and results in PDF, generated from TeX 
> source, so that the math would appear in optimal form.  I'm 
> wondering if, with cairo, one can readily create (or at some point 
> will be able to create) a gtk widget that "natively" displays PDF 
> fragments?

Yes, it's possible.

Take a look at the application:
http://www.gnome.
org/projects/evince/

and the library:
http://poppler.freedesktop.org/

> If this is possible on Linux, is it also possible on win32?

It should be possible in win32 or it may just need fixing.



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