Dear Riccardo, Thanks a lot for your details about functional difference between ghostscript and the xpdf/poppler PDF libraries. I appreciate it - I probably wouldn't've figured it out if I didn't ask. I think text selection is indeed useful for me to be able to take notes out of text in the PDF documents so I will try to pursue the xpdf/poppler apps from here.
Hopefully we figure out how to compile PopplerKit so that I can get Vindaloo running. I will ask at the distribution channels and let you know if I get enough help there. Svetlana Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mott...@libero.it> wrote: > Hi, > > > On 06/11/2016 21:22, Svetlana Tkachenko wrote: > > I don't know where ViewPDF currently is hosted and if somebody maintains > >> it at all - Is it another name for the old Vindaloo viewer? > >> I could trace that to: > >> http://gna.org/projects/gsimageapps <http://gna.org/projects/gsimageapps> > >> > >> Based on poppler.. it looks another piece of GS software that is.... > >> bitrotting > > Is being based on poppler bad? Is this software bad in its design? > > Nothing bad being based on poppler.. I don't know the design of that > program so I can't tell. > Poppler or xpdf can give at least some PDF functionality, while for > ghostscript, like used in GSPdf, each page is just an image, there won't > be stuff like search and I guess it will be always slower, but the > rendering quality is quite high. > Different approaches. > > The discussion of xpdf vs poppler then goes beyond this thread I guess. > > > > > I tried to compile PoppletKit for Vindaloo, and it gives me this error > > even though I already installed libpoppler-dev and libpopplerkit0: > > > > Making all for subproject bindings... > > make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'obj/bindings.obj/poppler.c.o', > > needed by 'obj/subproject.o'. Stop. > > /usr/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/Instance/subproject.make:45: recipe for > > target 'internal-subproject-all_' failed > > make[2]: *** [internal-subproject-all_] Error 2 > > /usr/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/Master/rules.make:311: recipe for target > > 'bindings.all.subproject.variables' failed > > make[1]: *** [bindings.all.subproject.variables] Error 2 > > /usr/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/Master/rules.make:311: recipe for target > > 'PopplerKit.all.framework.variables' failed > > make: *** [PopplerKit.all.framework.variables] Error 2 > > Sorry I don't know, never built that software myself. > > > Is it useful for me to try GSPdf and edit it to add continuous scrolling > > there? > > > > What is a good starting point for getting continuous scrolling somehow > > eventually? > > I can't think of an easy way of adding it in GSPdf. THink of GSPdf like > an image viewer... one image after teh other, just that the images are > your pages rendered to a /tmp > > Riccardo _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
