Once I've finished my current work on pdftohtml, I plan on porting poppler to Wt for viewing, searching and interaction (text selection, highlighting, bookmarking, page number jumping, hyperlink openable[ing]) from a browser without requiring a plugin.
Maybe you'd be more interested to work with me on this? On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Todd Hubers <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm currently using Poppler for Text extraction and using GhostScript for > PDF to Image functionality, all for viewing PDFs online without requiring a > PDF plugin in the browser. > > I noticed Mozilla was working on an interesting project, PDF.js > [https://wiki.mozilla.org/PDF.js]. It loads PDF files with pure Javascript > (on a HTML5 compatible browser - probably needs canvas). > > This is an opportunity for poppler to steam ahead and get some headline > grabbing exposure. The SVG format is well supported by browsers. PDFs are > portable across systems, however SVGs are very portable (and fast) across > the web. > > I propose the building of an SVG Device - PDF to SVG. I am currently > considering using PDF to XML, to then perform XML to SVG. Given the status > quo, I believe it's time for PDF to SVG. > > I see SVG as a very efficient and therefore powerful web format, I hope > others in the poppler community will see the potential as I do. > > Thanks, > > Todd Hubers (BBIT Hons) > Alivate > > PS. Perhaps we could then have PDF>Cairo, PDF>SVG, and then tools for > SVG>XML, SVG>HTML, SVG>Text. In any case it would be good to have simply one > direct rendering device and one "data" device. > > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler > > _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
