Hi all,
I worked on an okular pdf plugin using pdfium as a backend. At this point it is little more than a “proof-of-concept”. But you can already view simple pdf files.
I would like to get some feedback on this: maybe somebody else is already working on an okular pdfium plugin? I am relatively new to KDE and don’t know all the development processes.
How do you normally proceed from here on? Reviewboard? A personal branch?
I attached a git patch file, if somebody would like to try it out.
A small warning: pdfium only works on x64 and at this point it is basically a mixture of static and shared libraries. So you definitely have to compile it yourself.
Thanks,
Gilbert
Gilbert
=== Install depot tools ===
Needed for fetching and building pdfium
See instructions:
https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/install-depot-tools
=== Install pdfium ===
mkdir repo
cd repo
gclient config --unmanaged https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium.git
gclient sync
cd pdfium
export PDFIUM_DIR=`pwd`
gn gen out/Debug --args="pdf_enable_xfa=false pdf_enable_v8=true use_sysroot=false is_debug=true"
ninja -C out/Debug pdfium
mkdir repo
cd repo
gclient config --unmanaged https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium.git
gclient sync
cd pdfium
export PDFIUM_DIR=`pwd`
gn gen out/Debug --args="pdf_enable_xfa=false pdf_enable_v8=true use_sysroot=false is_debug=true"
ninja -C out/Debug pdfium
=== Compile Okular ===
cd <okular build dir>
cmake .. -DPDFIUM_ROOT_DIR=$PDFIUM_DIR
You probably have to add $PDFIUM_DIR dir to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable
pdfium.tar.gz
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