PDFViewer

Version 0.2.1
2000-Aug-27

This is a PDF reader for BeOS. PDFViewer is based on xpdf 0.91 and BePDF 0.6. It handles PDF files up to version 1.3 and handles encrypted files.

Index

Acknowledgement
Volunteers Wanted
Keyboard Control
Mouse Control
Changes
Compiling
Known Bugs
To Do

Acknowledgement

Derek B. Noonburg for xpdf.
Hubert Figuiere for BePDF.
NAITOH Jun for the Japanese Font Support.

Volunteers Wanted

Documentation

I am very lazy writing documentation as you can see (especially when it's not in my native language). So I could need a volunteer who writes the documentation. Send an email to michael.pfeiffer@utanet.at if you want to help. Thanks.

Keyboard Control

Space/Backspace ... scroll forward/backward.
Cursor Keys ... scroll a little bit in the direction of the cursor key.
Page Up/Down ... next/previous page.

Mouse Control

Primary Mouse Button over link ... follows link.
Primary Mouse Button over free space ... moves view.
Secondary Mouse Button or Primary Mouse Button + Control Key
Selects a rectangle to copy into the clipboard. Both text and a bitmap are copied to the clipboard. Use paste inside a text editor to insert the text. Use paste inside Gobe Productive Graphics or Image Processing to insert the bitmap.

Changes

Release 0.1.0, Jul 29th 2000

Fixed scrollbar bug.
Added navigation with the keyboard.
Added moving the view with the mouse.
Added code for displaying masked images.
Improved code for drawing images.
Some special characters are now displayed.
Fixed bug in stroke function (line width was not set correctly).
Added a status window.

Release 0.1.1, Jul 30th 2000

Fixed image color bug.

Release 0.1.2, Jul 30th 2000

Added handling of document internal links and URI links.

Release 0.1.3, Aug 11th 2000

Added character decoding for Symbol Font.
Improved character decoding.
Added an open dialog box.
Added more navigation buttons.
Added drag and drop support to open a document in the current window.

Release 0.1.4, Aug 13th 2000

Added printing support.
Added page rotation.
Fixed image bug (image was not rotated).

Release 0.1.5, Aug 15th 2000

Fixed masked image bug.

Release 0.2, Aug 22nd 2000

Japanese Font support added by NAITOH Jun.
First PPC release.
Switch from xpdf 0.9 to xpdf 0.91.
Added realtime dragging of the view.
Added searching for text.
Added text copy.
Fixed another image bug (hope this is the last :).

Release 0.2.1, Aug 27th 2000

Added Type 1 font support (uses t1lib).
Fixed some minor bugs.

Compiling PDFViewer

The necessary project files for x86 and ppc:

T1-1.0.1/t1lib.a.x86.proj
PDFViewer-x86.proj
PDFViewer-ppc.proj

Compiler Options

Mandatory Macro Definitions

-DHAVE_DIRENT_H=1
-DX_DISPLAY_MISSING=1
-DHAVE_POPEN=1
-DUSE_GZIP
-DSINGLE_DOCUMENT_VIEW

Optional Macro Definitions

-DJAPANESE_SUPPORT=1 Enable this if you want to read japanese PDF files.
-DUSE_TYPE3_RENDERER Enable this if you want to view PDF files which include Type 3 Fonts. xpdf 0.91 contains code which renders these Type 3 Fonts, but it is horribly slow at the moment. A next release of xpdf might have a better Type 3 font engine, with caching. So be patient :).
-DHAVE_T1LIB_H=1 Set this to 1 to render Font Type 1.

Known Bugs

The view should not flicker when selecting a text rectangle.
Line mode is not set when printing.
Font Type 3 characters are printed in 72 dpi only.

To Do

Render Dingbats font.
Render Type3 fonts.
Printer Settings (Odd/Even Page Number, Normal/Reverse Order).
Compile the xpdf tools (pdfimages, pdfinfo, pdftopbm, pdftops, pdftotext).

For further informations and limitations read README.beos in the directory doc.BeOS and the xpdf documentation.