Re: PDF/Postscript in gtk+

[Raul Dias <chaos swi com br>]

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 21:34 -0500, muppet wrote:
> 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.

This would be exactly what I am looking for.


> > 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.

Is this the same thing GGV does? If not it might work under win32 too.

> > If so, does it work on win32?
>
> Beats me.  The Ghostscript trick sounds pretty X-specific.
yep.

> > 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.

God point.
It seems that right now, this is the only path I have (besides calling
external apps).

Raul Dias