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#100 A way to circumvent the lack of a browser plugin (djview "server")

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2020-12-03
2020-10-18
Janusz
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I've just noticed Edit in Emacs extension for Firefox and Chrome (https://github.com/stsquad/emacs_chrome) which runs Emacs with the data provided by the browser. I guess it is quite easy to write an anological extension starting djview4. I have no idea how difficult would be to adapt djview4 to work as a server.

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  • Janusz

    Janusz - 2020-10-18

    Sorry for being unprecise. The extension should pass parameters to an already running djview server. I understand the extensions are not allowed to start a program.

     

  • Janusz

    Janusz - 2020-10-19

    Cf. an interesting comment by Barak A. Pearlmutter:
    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=972429

     

  • Janusz

    Janusz - 2020-10-22

    Joachim Aleszkiewicz pointed to me in a private mail that https://github.com/andy-portmen/external-application-button does already almost all was is needed. There are only two problems left.
    One is the configuration which may be prohibitively difficult for many user, so a a preconfigured version is highly desirable.
    The second important change, suggested by Joachim, would be eliminating the need to use the context menu and start djview4 without asking.

     

    • Leon Bottou

      Leon Bottou - 2020-10-27

      This one is very interesting : it uses the native client framework to
      talk to a helper application that starts the application of your choice.
      However it wouldn't be hard to make djview understand directly the
      native client messages and perform a number of tasks on behalf of the
      browser.

      • Leon

      On 10/22/20 2:47 AM, Janusz wrote:

      Joachim Aleszkiewicz pointed to me in a private mail that
      https://github.com/andy-portmen/external-application-button does
      already almost all was is needed. There are only two problems left.
      One is the configuration which may be prohibitively difficult for many
      user, so a a preconfigured version is highly desirable.
      The second important change, suggested by Joachim, would be
      eliminating the need to use the context menu and start djview4 without
      asking.

      [feature-requests:#100]
      https://sourceforge.net/p/djvu/feature-requests/100/ A way to
      circumvent the lack of a browser plugin (djview "server")

      Status: open
      Group: Next_Release_(example)
      Created: Sun Oct 18, 2020 08:46 AM UTC by Janusz
      Last Updated: Mon Oct 19, 2020 10:19 AM UTC
      Owner: nobody

      I've just noticed Edit in Emacs extension for Firefox and Chrome
      (https://github.com/stsquad/emacs_chrome) which runs Emacs with the
      data provided by the browser. I guess it is quite easy to write an
      anological extension starting djview4. I have no idea how difficult
      would be to adapt djview4 to work as a server.

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  • Janusz

    Janusz - 2020-11-02

    Cf. bug #323.

     

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