Ubuntu Touch: Poppler or MuPDF as PDF renderer

Luke Yelavich themuso at ubuntu.com
Sun May 19 23:10:04 UTC 2013


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:39:31PM EST, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> given that we want full convergence, which means using the same default
> core tools on the phone as well as on the desktop, is MuPDF ready to
> replace Poppler on the desktop ?

Poppler also has a better accessibility story, in that it is possible to use Orca with evince to read PDF files to a limited degree, and this is likely to be improved on in the future, either in Evince, or a QML based app that uses poppler for our convergence story.

Luke



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