Cairo and Poppler support
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Steven Sproat
A recent discovery has been made, late into the project's lifecycle as a university project, of Poppler, a PDF rendering engine. There is a Python binding available for this, which, together with Cairo could bring significant advantages, and changes to Whyteboard.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Started
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Low
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Steven Sproat
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Slow progress
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Steven Sproat
- Completed by
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Been researching into compiling Poppler / getting PyPoppler working on Windows.
kind of pointless if I can't get it to work
18 June:
Got Poppler rendering on Windows. Have integrated a basic version that draws the PDF's first page with Cairo, but is really laggy on Windows -- probably from the mixing of multiple DCs
(?)
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* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
