Re: PDF/Postscript in gtk+

[Daniel Kasak <dkasak nusconsulting com au>]

Raul Dias wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 16:32 +1100, Daniel Kasak wrote:
>   
> I want to avoid using an external app.
> Most people who will be using this barely knows how to use a computer.
> Having multiple windows open would cause greater confusion.
>
> Just to get an idea, this app will be run fullscreen from an autorun CD.
>
>   
Oh. *That* kind of app, eh? Under Linux, you can probably embed poppler, 
but under Windows, I don't know what you'd do. I suppose go with your 
idea of converting to an image and then displaying that.
>   
> > evince and gpdf can't currently print pdfs very well at all. They
> > have 
> > major issues with spacing and alignment - particularly with pdfs 
> > generated by PDF::API2 ... trust me ... this is just what we do :(
> >     
>
> Interesting.  Is there any reason for this? badly generated pdfs from
> PDF::API2?
>   

Poppler bugs.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3391
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5347

I got the 1st one fixed by the xpdf author, but I'm not convinced that 
the fix has been integrated into poppler ( which is forked from xpdf ).
Not a lot has happened on either bug page. I'm not too concerned as long 
as Adobe's reader continues to work.

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