[Xcb] pdf viewer

[Jeremy A. Kolb]

Can't wait to try this one out!

Jeremy

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Vincent Torri wrote:

> 
> Hey,
> 
> Jamey told me that an xcb based pdf viewer would be cool. Poppler is a
> (c++) library that parses and render pdf content. Here is xcbpdf :)
> 
> I told Jamey that i would not be able to find time to code it within a few
> weeks. Finally, i could not resist. I've very quickly code that minimalist
> pdf viewer. It's not perfect, in particular, the colors. All the ways I
> have tried are quite slow. Right now the speed is correct, but the colors
> are ugly.
> 
> If you want to test :
> 
> 1) install poppler :
> 
> cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs at cvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/poppler co poppler
> 
> 2) Compile it with that option to configure :
> 
> ./configure --enable-xpdf-headers
> make
> make install
> 
> 3) Compile xcbpdf :
> 
> g++ -g -Wall -o xcbpdf xcbpdf.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs poppler xcb
> xcb-aux xcb-image`
> 
> yeah, I know, I have to use g++ :)
> 
> Finally, you can use the following keys to naviguate :
> 
> esc         : exit
> right arrow : page++
> left arrow  : page--
> page up     : page -= 10
> page down   : page += 10
> 
> that's all :)
> 
> fell free to hack it. Comment are of course welcome :)
> 
> Vincent