libkdeprint

Jakob Petsovits jpetso at gmx.at
Tue Oct 16 13:59:39 BST 2007


On Tuesday, 16. October 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 16.10.07 14:29:25, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > I mean the PDF viewers can already display a PDF file on one kind of
> > QPaintDevice, so there must be some difference I am overlooking.
> >
> From what Pino said so far I guess they let poppler do the rendering and
> fetch a pixmap to be displayed in okular's viewport. And of course using
> that pixmap for printing will produce bad results.

Given that oKular can zoom pretty close, I assume that poppler can produce 
arbitrarily sized renderings? Such as, renderings with a resolution that 
matches those of printers?

Sure, printing whole-page images will be slow as hell... but it would work.




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