nsapi has no future. For PDF just use a JavaScript viewer instead if the PDFs need to be embedded into a web page, like what Firefox does. If they aren't embedded it wouldn't take much to have your code detect that the user click on a PDF url and do something smart.
Ian On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:16 PM Jason Dolan <ja...@pcc.com> wrote: > I would love to hear some “official” input on this. Our project will be > migrating to Qt5 later on this year. One of our 3rd-party services is > embedded into our product as a webpage. That 3rd-party makes use of nsapi > plugins. Primarily for pdf viewing. We have then used QWebPluginFactory > to create our own internal PDF viewer plugin (using poppler). If we can’t > do that in Qt5, that is going to be a problem. > > -- > Jason Dolan > Software Developer > PCC > Control Your Future. > > 800-722-7708 > ja...@pcc.com > www.pcc.com > twitter.com/pccvt > > > > On Mar 23, 2015, at 12:40 PM, Andreas Pakulat <ap...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Frank Hemer <fr...@hemer.org> wrote: > >> Hi Scott, >> >> On Monday 23 March 2015 15:00:16 Scott Aron Bloom wrote: >> > Which version of Qt should I use? 5.4? >> > >> >> well, I currently use Qt5.4.0 with webkit since there recently have some >> annoying bugs with the nsapi plugin been fixed. >> The browser pdf plugins are a must for me (no alternative for using a pdf >> reader on end user systems), so I must wait for webengine to provide a >> replacement for these ... on devdays there has been mentioned that nsapi >> support is not planned to be implemented so that makes me worry a bit ... >> > > You may be out of luck on that, unless I'm mistaken QtWebEngine is based > on the Chrome/Chromium code-base and that one has dropped nsapi support ( > http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html). > That being said more recent versions of Chromium seem to include the > pdf-plugin that was originally done for Google Chrome, so it may be just a > matter of getting that part built and included (no idea which chromium > version QtWebEngine uses right now). > > Andreas > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest > > > _______________________________________________ > Interest mailing list > Interest@qt-project.org > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest >
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