Re: gtk, cairo and pdf

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 12:17 -0500, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> 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).

Cairo is just a drawing layer (think OpenGL for 2d).  It doesn't
understand file formats.  Poppler is a document widget that uses Cairo
to render.

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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp redhat com>