[Qt-interest] Is Acrobat reader is supported to view PDF files in Qt

Sean Harmer sean.harmer at maps-technology.com
Wed Dec 3 09:34:14 CET 2008


On Wednesday 03 December 2008 08:26:25 Oliver.Knoll at comit.ch wrote:
> Subhas Kamble wrote on Wednesday, December 03, 2008 6:08 AM:
> > ...
> > Is there any way we can display the pdf files in Qt
>
> Qt itself does not provide a PDF viewer (but it can create PDF). But you
> can try and embed the Acrobat Reader window within your Qt app. On Windows 
> the ActiveQt framework might come handy:
> http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/activeqt.html
An alternative that allows you to display PDF documents in your Qt app is to 
use poppler. This is described in Issue 27 of Qt Quarterly. Poppler is also 
used by Okular so you could look there for some inspiration too.

HTH,

Sean




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