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task #993: NSPDFImageRep

Submitter:  Gregory John Casamento <gcasa>
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Category:  AppKit Should Start On:  Thu 16 May 2002 04:00:00 AM UTC
Should be Finished on:  Fri 16 May 2003 04:00:00 AM UTC Priority:  5 - Normal
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Percent Complete:  0%
Open/Closed:  Open Effort:  80.00

Fri 23 Jul 2010 10:42:23 AM UTC, comment #2: 

We have two ways implementing this. Either rely on an external library or implement it ourselves.
Relying on an external library saves work and may provide with a proven implementation. PDFKit does work.
Unfortunately such a kit should rely on a LGPL library to be of any real use. xpdf, popplerkit are GPL v2 ONLY. muPDF is GPLv3+.
These implementations also do not lveage any of our assets (like our font rendering, etc)

Another option is to implement a light parser and use our AppKit rendering capabilities to display text, BezierPaths to do the drawing, etc.
I know of non-public implementations of this. It has some limitations and tricky parts (like font substitution) but I think it is interesting.

PDFKit/PopplerKit shall remain available of course. But an internal implementation would be very good for tasks like the inspector of GWorkspace or a generic previewer.

 Riccardo Mottola <rmottola>
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Mon 14 Feb 2005 01:30:12 PM UTC, comment #1: 

May be we should rely on gsimageapps <https://gna.org/projects/gsimageapps/> with their PDFKit in order to add support for this class when this framework is installed… We could link it dynamically with -gui bundle which would be nothing more then than a wrapper around PDFKit…
What do you think ?

 Quentin Mathé <qmathe>
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Displays PDF files in a view

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