Dear all,
I implemented PDF rendering in Qt application.
My opinion is that Poppler is not the best piece of open source code,
look the code in comparison to MuPDF, it is C but clean C and run on
embedded devices.
Rather Poppler is more like a pile-up of crappy codes. Some years ago,
somebody complained that Poppler doesn't use the same rendering engine
on Gnome and KDE ...
And Okular is nearly unable to print a document, try to print a 10 cm
square on a printer or to do complex printing, personally I would prefer
to boot Windows and use Acroread instead.
However I don't have experience with PDFium.
Cheers,
Fabrice
Le 12/08/2019 à 17:16, Thiago Macieira a écrit :
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?
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