[ale] OT - PDF libraries

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 16:17 -0500, List wrote:
> I've looked and looked, and cannot seem to find any libraries for
> Python 
> or Open Pascal that allow you to render and view PDF files.  There
> are 
> lots that let you create them, but viewers are hard to come by.  I've 
> found one or two that might work written in C++, but using them or 
> writing bindings is sort of a last resort.
> 
> Anybody know of any?  I want to write a PDF viewer with annotation
> and 
> bookmark capabilities that are stored outside of the main PDF file.  
> Seems like a simple thing to do, but finding a starting point has
> been 
> more difficult than I expected.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Is there any chance that you would be able to branch off of Evince?
There have been proposals for adding such functionality, you might want
to check out:

   http://live.gnome.org/Evince/Annotations

For some information regarding what has been done on that front.

	--- Mike

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