Hi! On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 at 09:39, Kai Köhne <kai.koe...@qt.io> wrote: [snip] > > 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. > > Why wasn't PDFium updated? PDFium got merged into Chromium a while ago, and > is nowadays built as part of Chromium, using their build system (gn). > Updating qtpdf.git to ship with latest PDFium would require quite some work, > and keeping it up to date would require continuous work, too - work that > nobody was willing to invest into so far. > > But it turns out that, since Qt 5.11, we have PDFium already in our sources, > and we're actually also building it! It's part of the Qt WebEngine libs that > use it for PDF rendering in HTML. So technically, you can already render > PDF's by loading them into a Qt WebEngine page. Anyhow, not everybody wants > to ship a web browser for 'just' rendering PDF's [3] ... >
So maintaining it under it's build system it's troublesome, but letting other people do it in yet another build system is ok. Sorry, that sounds fishy. PDF libraries tend to be a common source of CVEs, so whichever library is used it should be certainly easy to update without the need of a third party acting as a proxy. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
