[gccsdk] evince

[Peter Naulls]

Martin Wuerthner wrote:
> In message <4B40BFC4.7080307 at chocky.org>
>           Peter Naulls <peter at chocky.org> wrote:
> 
>> As for XPDF, you really want to obtain the old versions
>> and integrate the RISC OS patches:
> 
>> http://www.pdf.iconbar.com/
> 
>> I suspect this has its own native RISC OS frontend, voiding
>> the need for ChoX11.
> 
> Yes, it predates ChoX11 by many years. !PDF is far more than just xpdf 
> with a RISC OS front-end. !PDF uses the core PDF processing library 
> provided by xpdf to build a Draw file for the current PDF page, which 
> it then displays in its own RISC OS GUI.

Yes; I hadn't meant to suggest that; only that I hadn't looked at
the code.

> There is also PDFView, which is based on the !PDF work and uses a lot 
> more of the original xpdf code: It can make use of xpdf's internal PDF 
> rasterizer to create a fully rendered bitmap rather than a Drawfile, 
> which is less useful for editing but supports much more advanced PDF 
> features than the original !PDF Drawfile engine.

I think also PDFView uses a slightly newer xpdf engine, but I don't
know how much difference that makes. But when I looked at !PDFView
recently, I couldn't immediately find the source.

Which do you think is the best bet for updating, or perhaps even
a hybrid of both versions - a PDFView which can output Draw
(assuming it cannot already)?