PDFium plugin

[Jonathan Schultz]

Looks interesting. How does it compare (performance, features, etc.) 
with the Poppler plugin?

Any chance you could save us the bother of building ourselves and post a 
link to an executable?

Cheers,
Jonathan

On 18/01/17 03:30, Gilbert Assaf wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I worked on an okular pdf plugin using pdfium as a backend. At this
> point it is little more than a “proof-of-concept”. But you can already
> view simple pdf files.
>
> I would like to get some feedback on this: maybe somebody else is
> already working on an okular pdfium plugin? I am relatively new to KDE
> and don’t know all the development processes.
> How do you normally proceed from here on? Reviewboard? A personal branch?
>
> I attached a git patch file, if somebody would like to try it out.
>
> A small warning: pdfium only works on x64 and at this point it is
> basically a mixture of static and shared libraries. So you definitely
> have to compile it yourself.
>
> Thanks,
> Gilbert
>
> === Install depot tools ===
> Needed for fetching and building pdfium
> See instructions:
> https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/install-depot-tools
>
> === Install pdfium ===
> mkdir repo
> cd repo
> gclient config --unmanaged https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium.git
> gclient sync
> cd pdfium
> export PDFIUM_DIR=`pwd`
> gn gen out/Debug --args="pdf_enable_xfa=false pdf_enable_v8=true
> use_sysroot=false is_debug=true"
> ninja -C out/Debug pdfium
>
> === Compile Okular ===
> cd <okular build dir>
> cmake .. -DPDFIUM_ROOT_DIR=$PDFIUM_DIR
> You probably have to add $PDFIUM_DIR dir to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable