On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

On 6/26/2013 10:50 PM, Philipp Gesang wrote:

Hi Luigi!

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On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

while sumatrapdf

- is pretty fast
- has matured quite well
- remembers the current page
- renders quite ok
- even supports some basic interactivity
- (has an ugly yellow pop up windows but those can nowadays be recolored)
- can be installed as portable application
- works ok wine/linux (in fact has my preference now when on linux)

I have to admit that I often think to a context pdf viewer, and mupdf

seems the right candidate.
Under ubuntu 64bit 12.04 xpdf doesn't work, acroreader is still 9 32 bit
(so I use wine acroreader 11)
evince is ok, probably also okular.
A context pdf viewer should be like sumatrapdf at least ---  so  in the end
I also installed sumatrapdf.exe under linux .

Now that I have done a luatex binding for mupdf,
if we have a minimal GUI toolkit cross platform (but really minimal)
it's possible to build a pdfviewer in luatex

If you’re serious about this, the Zathura guys have a separate
interface library based on GTK [1]. Having some (any) Lua
capability inside a pdf viewer would indeed be nice.

FYI: After Luigi and I have wrapped up the projects "swiglib" (libraries) and "speed-up-luatex" projects we will start our "lua-in-pdf-viewer" exploration (after all pdf permits additional annotations) ... and we need challenges.

Hans