Came across the MuPDF library being developed as a replacement for ghostscript etc..details here
http://ccxvii.net/apparition/
There are sources and windows binaries so far.
I also tried this
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/
which uses the MuPDF engine and renders several TIMES faster run on wine in puppy compared to epdfview....
The firefox plugin is pretty neat too but windows only so far.
Definately a development worth considering for future puppies.
mike
MuPDF
Ok, sounds cool, who will try first? We need to compile Fitz, Mupdf and Apparition, and to do that we need Jam, and I'm not sure what tool we use to download the source for that http://public.perforce.com:8080/@md=d&c ... src/?ac=83
And to download it we seem to need either some other unknown tool, or Darcs, which we need a Haskell compiler for...
And to download it we seem to need either some other unknown tool, or Darcs, which we need a Haskell compiler for...
Ok
can this thread be moved to 'additional software' as its's obviously beyond the scope of linux developement...apologies for my non technical mistake.
If anyone is looking for a fast compact pdf viewer and is running wine then here is a good candidate
mike
can this thread be moved to 'additional software' as its's obviously beyond the scope of linux developement...apologies for my non technical mistake.
If anyone is looking for a fast compact pdf viewer and is running wine then here is a good candidate
mike
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