[Okular-devel] In place of Okular

[John Culleton]

On Friday 11 December 2009 11:33:56 Pino Toscano wrote:
> Alle venerdì 11 dicembre 2009, John Culleton ha scritto:
> > Is it possible for the developers to simply recompile the 
latest
> > version of Kpdf 3.5 against the Qt 4 libraries?
>
> It needs porting to the Qt 4, and that porting is called Okular.
>
> > That would be a good
> > solution for those of us who really just need the capabilities, 
and the
> > reliability, of that program.
>
> Any concrete example, excluding printing?

No, but that for me is enough. The virtue of Okular and its 
predecessor, kpdf, for my workflow is the automatic update 
of the file when the underlying pdf file is updated.  Adobe Reader 
won't do that.  But Okular has printing problems, at least on my 
system.  I don't propose a Qt4 version of Kpdf as a long term 
solution but as a quick fix. The required changes should be 
minimal, which should mean a minimum of debugging.  In 
addition to the printing problem I see lots of otherOkular bug 
reports. That is to be expected in a major revision with many new 
features.

I could I suppose download the KDE3 libraries and run Kpdf but 
two sets of libraries with similar or identical file names could 
mess things up for other apps.  If QT4 is a proper superset of QT3 
my proposal is feasible.  If not, maybe not. 
-- 
John Culleton
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