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List:       pykde
Subject:    Re: Rendering PDF in PyQT5
From:       Florian Bruhin <me () the-compiler ! org>
Date:       2020-06-30 15:03:38
Message-ID: 20200630150338.hgippfinzbb64fd6 () hooch ! localdomain
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On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 02:28:12PM +0200, Justin Giffard wrote:
> I have tried a webview in the past which seemed to work okay

FWIW since Qt 5.13, QtWebEngine can show PDFs using Chromium's PDFium viewer:
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-features.html#pdf-file-viewing

> but Paolo came across a C++ QT5 example that made use of a QPdfDocument which
> I later found was held by the QPdfView. This had me excited until I found
> that it would seem that this is not implemented in PyQT5. Damn another brick
> wall.

Qt PDF uses the same PDFium viewer from QtWebEngine internally as well - but I
think it's still a Qt Labs "work in progress" thing at the moment.

Florian

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