On 1/8/07, Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/5/07, Jorge Vargas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > I'm looking for a tool to take an actual .pdf file and display it in a > > window (I'm using wxwidgets at the moment) > > > > I have found several project but none seem to do what I need. > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfplayground seems like a nice > > toolkit to edit pdf files with python code, but nothing about > > rendering. > > > > I have find out http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ but there seems to be > > no python bindings for it. > > > > there is also an example at http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet618.html > > using wx.lib.pdfwin but that is windows only, I need at least Linux > > support better if it's platform independant as python *should* be > > > > and the reportlabs BSD packages can't do this. > > http://www.reportlab.org/devfaq.html#2.1.5 > > > > anyone knows of a toolkit to do this? bonus points if's it is already > > integrated into wxpython > > -- > > Rendering PDF is quite hard, much harder than writing it. yes indeed > There are > relatively few PDF rendering solutions for any platform, and it's > non-trivial to merge one with a specific UI solution. So I'm not aware > of any cross-platform solution. Most PDF usage either embeds the Adobe > ActiveX control (on windows) or just shunts it off the user to find a > working PDF viewer. I guess for now I'll use the ActiveX code on windows and try out Martin's suggestion on embedding a window of acrobat reader on the linux part.
On the other hard I'm going to email the poppler guys to see if they are interested in some python and/or wxwidgets integration. > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list