[TeXstudio-list] texstudio PDF viewer

[Benjamin E. <b.e...@gm...>]

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Hi texstudio maintainers,

I have been using texstudio for two months now and I have really come
to appreciate its features like TeX documentation and image pop-ups,
autocompletion etc.

The greatest weakness from my point of view is texstudio's PDF viewer.
I happen to know the maintainer of qpdfview
(https://launchpad.net/qpdfview), a light Qt based document viewer,
and he told me, he would in principle be willing to split qpdfview
into a library and a GUI if you were interested in using such a library.

So to make some advertisement for qpdfview:
 * It supports PDF, PS and DjVu via the respective libraries.
 * It makes use of the thread safety of Poppler >= 0.24 for
multithreaded rendering.
 * It partly supports PDF forms and annotations.
 * It has an experimental Mupdf plugin, so in case Mupdf becomes more
attractive than Poppler, switching would be as easy as setting a
compile time option.
 * It does not use KDE libraries and a number of dependencies can be
switched off with the corresponding features at build time.

Of course, fixing an API and adapting to another external piece of
software would imply some work also for the texstudio team, but in the
long run I think you could have a better document viewer for less
work. I hope, I could interest you in the idea to collaborate on this.


Cheers,

Benjamin

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