25 Nov
2009
25 Nov
'09
11:06 a.m.
Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 November 2009 09:54:36 luigi scarso wrote:
>>> That wasn't the point, I was not trying to give a comparative table of
>>> pdf-viewers. luatex was buggy, but some viewers displayed the pdf
>>> nonetheless. Doesn't make sense to test a dozen viewers because next time
>>> around, the subset which does or does not work may be totally different.
>> Not dozen, only 2~3 but code independent .My choices are
>> 1) xpdf (same codebase of luatex)
>> 2)acroread (the most important viewer for pdf )
>> 3) ghostscript (also used by context )
>> They are all used / important for TeX community and printing house.
>
> I understood that xpdf has been replaced by poppler, a rewritten PDF
> rendering library (based originally on xpdf, however I am no authority).
> This library is the motor behind the viewers evince (gnome) and okular (kde).
>
> If this is different from the codebase used by luatex,
> should luatex eventually be migrated to popplar?
we only need a limited library, no rendering, only loading and
inclusion, and the problems that were reported are related to rendering
Hans
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