Dick Kniep wrote:
>We have written about this before. A wxPDF control would be perfect (as we are
>working on Linux), and can be built upon xpdf. Then it is simply a wrapper
>around xpdf, which is lightweight, and very responsive. if I am not mistaken,
>xpdf is also the engine for kpdf. Using an existing rendering engine makes
>the amount of work significantly less.
In my mind, we (at least I) have to be very humble with all this "pdf stuff". Having tools to generate pdf (reports, texts,...) is one thing,
having a reliable, correct pdf rendering engine is an another story, it
is a months/men, if not years/men, job.
I created several state-of-the-art pdf documents (eTeX, pdfeLaTeX,
correct fonts, ...). They look perfect in Acrobat Reader on my win
platform, not on the Linux platforms I tested (KDE, Konqueror).
It is more or less my conclusion.
jmf