12.08.2019, 18:25, "Konstantin Tokarev" <annu...@yandex.ru>: > 12.08.2019, 18:19, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macie...@intel.com>: >> On Monday, 12 August 2019 05:35:06 PDT Kai Köhne wrote: >>> I suggest to promote Qt PDF to a Qt module. For Qt 5.14, it will be in >>> Tech >>> Preview state, and Shawn Rutledge is volunteering to be the maintainer. >>> Although still staying an independent library from the user's perspective, >>> it will be hosted and built in the qtwebengine.git repository. Initially >>> only the desktop platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS) would be supported. >>> >>> Qt PDF is so far a Qt labs module [1]. It allows Qt applications to >>> render/view PDF's in QWidget based applications [2], and is built on top >>> of >>> PDFium. However, development has been stagnant, also because it is built >>> on >>> top of a rather old version of PDFium. >> >> Has any analysis been done comparing the feature and platform support, and >> codebase size, for PDFium versus Poppler? >> >> Or is the big problem that the library we need to use (poppler-qt) depend on >> Qt itself? > > I guess bigger problem is that Poppler is GPL. PDFium is probably the only > permissively licensed PDF engine.
(not counting PDF.js) -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
