[cairo] Hopefully a simple question

[Carl Worth]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:23:54 -0500, "Ethan King" wrote:
> Please forgive my ignorance.  I was wondering if it was possible to use
> cairo to display a PDF file on the screen.  I understand that Cairo can
> output to PDF, so I guess my question is can it use a PDF as input.

The cairo library itself doesn't contain any provision for parsing a
PDF file. But you can use the poppler library to parse the pdf, and it
will in turn use cairo to do the rendering.

I've attached a simple file below that should give the idea. It uses
poppler_page_render to render to a cairo context for an image surface
and then saves the image surface as a PNG file. The same approach can
be used with a cairo context for any other surface backend.

I hope that helps.

-Carl

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