12.08.2019, 18:19, "Thiago Macieira" <[email protected]>: > On Monday, 12 August 2019 05:35:06 PDT Kai Köhne wrote: >> I suggest to promote Qt PDF to a Qt module. For Qt 5.14, it will be in Tech >> Preview state, and Shawn Rutledge is volunteering to be the maintainer. >> Although still staying an independent library from the user's perspective, >> it will be hosted and built in the qtwebengine.git repository. Initially >> only the desktop platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS) would be supported. >> >> Qt PDF is so far a Qt labs module [1]. It allows Qt applications to >> render/view PDF's in QWidget based applications [2], and is built on top of >> PDFium. However, development has been stagnant, also because it is built on >> top of a rather old version of PDFium. > > Has any analysis been done comparing the feature and platform support, and > codebase size, for PDFium versus Poppler? > > Or is the big problem that the library we need to use (poppler-qt) depend on > Qt itself?
I guess bigger problem is that Poppler is GPL. PDFium is probably the only permissively licensed PDF engine. -- Regards, Konstantin _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
