On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 12:17 -0500, Allin Cottrell wrote: > On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. -- John (J5) Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
