Hi, Thank you very much for your information. Can you have any idea which versions of evince or epdfview are better to go further. If you have any patches relating to DirectFb port of evince please update me.
Thanks, Sreenivas On 9/11/07, Olaf Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I'm not subscribed to the list, but saw your mail in the archives. > > AFAIK it is possible to compile evince or maybe ePDFView to work on > DirectFB, but possibly you've to change the source to do this. Both > programms use poppler to render the PDF files and poppler in turn can > use cairo to draw PDF files which in turn has a DirectFB-backend. Also > both use GTK (well, evince uses gnome, but there is a no-gnome-patch > somewhere on their mailing list) which CAN be compiled to work with > DirectFB (using cairo). > > I'd think it might be easier to use ePDFView as a small PDF-viewer for > DirectFB, but I haven't looked at the source. AFAIK GTK-DirectFB is > packaged for Debian (as they use it in their installer). So you need to > compile a custom poppler-version which is linked against cairo-DirectFB > (which should be also part of debian). > > So yes, it is possible to have a DirectFB based PDF viewer - I once > compiled evince for DirectFB - but you might need to change the source > code of the app (as I did for evince -- basically rip out some stuff > and see, wheather is still works -- but I don't have the changes > anymore) but I guess ePDFView might need fewer changes if any. > > Have much fun && good luck, > > Olaf Leidinger > _______________________________________________ directfb-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-users
