Re: gtk, cairo and pdf

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, DANIELLLANO terra es wrote:

> Allin Cottrell wrote:
> > 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/

Thanks, these look very interesting.  I notice, though, that poppler 
uses the xpdf code base.  Nothing wrong with that, but I was 
wondering if cairo could handle this sort of thing natively (or if 
there are plans for that).

--
Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC