Mailing lists / fpc-pascal / 2009-02
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I have an application running nicely in FP. What a great system.
I would like to add a help facility that would search a topic in a PDF format manual and display the appropriate page. It there Module to read and search PDF file available.
John Youngquist
I would like to add a help facility that would search a topic in a PDF format manual and display the appropriate page. It there Module to read and search PDF file available.
An easy solution in Linux would be to call xpdf from the program. You can specify the PDF on the line, and either a page number to jump to, or a named destination (if they were defined inside the pdf).
John
What causes you to believe everyone has XPDF installed?
A more widely used option would be Ghostview, but even that cannot be guaranteed.
Windows doesn't have X, so it's a bad idea to rely on XPdf (except you don't mind about cross platformness).
What causes you to believe everyone has XPDF installed? A more widely used option would…
mu-pdf and fitz might be an interesting option. It is the engine that powers sumatrapdf.
Cheers,
--Krishna