Re: PDF/Postscript in gtk+

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Jan 30, 2006, at 6:14 PM, Raul Dias wrote:

> I need to display pdf documents (PDF::Api2 generated documents)  
> inside a perl-gtk+ app.
>
> This app will be cross plataform (linux/windows).

Have you considered poppler?  http://poppler.freedesktop.org/
This is the PDF rendering library behind Evince.  We've used it as a  
testbed for introspection-based bindings, but there is no existing  
conventional binding; doesn't look too hard, though.


> Postscript will do if pdf is not an option.

> I know that gnome has a pdf/postscript viewer, or something like  
> this (at list to preview the print job).

GGV is just a front-end for Ghostscript.


> Is this usable inside gtk2-perl?

I have a vague recollection that someone once posted to this very  
mailing list about using Ghostscript's X11 support in a Gtk2-Perl  
program.  It boiled down to getting the native window handle and  
setting a bunch of atoms on it so that gs could find it.


> If so, does it work on win32?

Beats me.  The Ghostscript trick sounds pretty X-specific.


> My last resource is to convert it to XPM thru Image::Magik, but this
> sounds awful.

ImageMagick uses Ghostscript to handle PDF and Postscript.  If you  
have Ghostscript available, you might as well use it directly.


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