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Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets
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Basil L. Contovounesios |
Subject: |
Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Oct 2020 19:42:05 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Akira Kyle <ak@akirakyle.com>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 11:05:51 -0600
>>
>> Another use case I had in mind for my proposed improved xwidgets
>> is better pdf rendering. I use pdf-tools constantly and it's one
>> of the best pdf viewers out there (not just because it's in
>> emacs). I'll sometimes even use it to give presentations so I
>> never have to leave Emacs. However it's design inherently limits
>> its rendering performance as it must rasterize each pdf page in a
>> separate process then pipe that data to emacs to display as an
>> image.
>
> This use case doesn't necessarily call for the same solution, but I
> could think of a differently designed pdf-viewer that didn't need to
> rasterize each page separately. Again, the mouse-sensitivity feature
> of our image display could perhaps be used for something like that. I
> reckon the hardest problem is to find an engine, be it a library or a
> program, that could convert PDF into something Emacs can display.
Not sure if this fits the bill, but I was hoping to eventually look into
whether Emacs+Cairo could render PDFs using the GLib API of the GPLed
Poppler library.
--
Basil
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, (continued)
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/13
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, Akira Kyle, 2020/10/13
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/14
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, Akira Kyle, 2020/10/14
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, Stefan Monnier, 2020/10/14
- RE: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, arthur miller, 2020/10/14
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/15
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, Arthur Miller, 2020/10/15
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/15
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/13
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets,
Basil L. Contovounesios <=
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/13
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, Akira Kyle, 2020/10/13
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/14
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, Arthur Miller, 2020/10/14
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/10/14
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, Arthur Miller, 2020/10/15
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, Kai Ma, 2020/10/17
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, Qiantan Hong, 2020/10/17
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, Stefan Monnier, 2020/10/14
- Re: Rethinking the design of xwidgets, Aiko Kyle, 2020/10/14