So, I've been digging through gpdf, ggv, mozilla-bonobo, mozplug and plugger today in an attempt to get a working embedded pdf file browser in a browser, -with- the corresponding navigation UI. mozilla-bonobo doesn't cut it (no controls in the window) , left me doing cludgy things to gpdf , ggv and some plugger derivate.
I ended up using the cleaner mozplugger, together with ggv + some tweaks. Removing gpdf completely from the corporate desktop. Why? Because currently gpdf didn't feature the printing and navigation, and I don't want to maintain patches that guarantees to change the behaviour of the system mid release. Not good.
So for now, ggv has to handle both pdf and ps files, and do the embedded thing into the browser. Now only to make it launch a bit faster than current 80 seconds (slow testmachines that fit our target audience.)
Tomorrow its time to beat at configurations/preferences dialogs, unless there are more urgent things to deal with.
Posted by spider at February 9, 2004 10:55 PM