SeanCollins wrote:


Yes, it allows editing, it is feature complete for pdf 1.7 and it is very fast. It has nearly all features that poppler has too. I want it to be also a editor not only a pdf viewer. Thinks like rearanging pages, changing the background color, splitting pdf files, inserting and deleting pages from the pdf-file, and more I want to implement. Also adding annotations.
What will be missing, at least at the beginning will be interactive things like javascript and form filling.

Mupdf is really fast, and that's a good reason to move away from xpdf/poppler.

I really would like to see an updated PDF viewer! Did you thought about integrating muPDF into BePDF? For example, by wrapping the pdf engine into a adapter class? This would also makes it easier to reuse the viewer for other formats... mupdf seems to be a good choice, think poppler has some nasty dependencies...

I'm not too unhappy with the BePDF gui. I'm only missing: a multi page view, preview view and a text search.

Keep going! I would definitely appreciate that!

You know, this forum is not the #1 source for information on haiku for everyone...

I only got to know your idea / this poll when it was listed on the main page of Haikuware. Now I've signed up in this forum just to be able to answer.

Just because only 15(+1) people responded your poll yet, that does not mean that there is no need for a new pdf viewer. Btw. you already have >62% indicating their need / wish for a better PDF viewer.

Please continue your work to complete what you already started.

When it comes to money: Why not open a haikuware bounty for that?

czeidler wrote:


I wanted to make a new UI because I think it can be done better and saving more vertical space so that your files are bigger. But of course after the functionality is present, it's not that much work to convert it back to a more traditional looking Haiku application.

Yes writing an adapter class is a very good idea.

cipri wrote:


How much are you looking to raise ?

First of all I wanted to see if the people are interested into a new pdf-viewer. The result is very uncommon. There are not many haiku users that want it, but instead on the mailing list the response of haiku developers was great, and all agreed that bepdf needs to be replaced/updated.
The result is very weird to me, because in most cases, the users are the ones who are (or should be) asking for new applications so that the os becomes more useable for them, I didnt expect that it would be the opposite.