Is poppler GLP'd? Gerrick
On 11/12/08 9:10 AM, "Robert Osfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another day, another curious example... osgpdf ;-) > > In a similar vain to my work on adding vnc support that I did last > week, the volume rendering project also has a need for viewing pdf > documents as a way of mixing presentation text/imagery with 3D volumes > so no I've embarked on adding pdf support directly into the core OSG. > Last month Jeremy Moles added support for pdf reading to osgCairo so > I knew it was possible, and I also had some code to learn from and > leverage ;-) > > So today I embarked on the journey to adding pdf support into the core > OSG. The first step is just a small example application, but like > osgvnc I plan to distil this down into a plugin so that all > applications can leverage it will little coding effort. I need to get > a bit more experience with using Poppler/Cairo and also spend a bit > more time thinking about the public interface before I make the > plugin, and I'd also like some feedback from members of the community > on how well osgpdf works at your end. > > To compile you'll need to latest OSG from svn/trunk. Cairo and > Poppler libraries. These look like they should be available on all > the major platforms, but I've only been able to test under Linux. Once > you have Cairo and Poppler installed re-running CMake should be able > to pick up on Cairo and Poppler and then osgpdf example should > compile. If you get things working under Windows or OSX could you > please write in with what you had to do to get things installed. > > To test osgpdf, simply pass it a pdf document: > > osgpdf mydocument.pdf > > Move the mouse of the resulting texture quad and then press 'n' and > 'p' to step to next and previous pages. You can also run it with > multiple documents at once. > > osgpdf *.pdf > > I've just tested this 22 documents and it worked just fine, although > each of quads is a bit small on screen to read without zooming in! > > Robert. > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
