pdfviewer¶wx.lib.pdfviewer
The wx.lib.pdfviewer pdfViewer class is derived from wx.ScrolledWindow and can display and print PDF files. The whole file can be scrolled from end to end at whatever magnification (zoom-level) is specified.
The viewer uses pyPdf to parse the pdf file so it is a requirement that this must be installed. The pyPdf home page is http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/ and the library can also be downloaded from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyPdf/1.12
There is an optional pdfButtonPanel class, derived from wx.lib.buttonpanel, that can be placed, for example, at the top of the scrolled viewer window, and which contains navigation and zoom controls. Alternatively you can drive the viewer from controls in your own application.
Externally callable methods are: LoadFile, Save, Print, SetZoom, and GoPage
The viewer renders the pdf file content using Cairo if installed, otherwise wx.GraphicsContext is used. Printing is achieved by writing directly to a wx.PrintDC and using wx.Printer.
Please note that pdfviewer is a far from complete implementation of the pdf specification and will probably fail to display any random file you supply. However it does seem to be OK with the sort of files produced by ReportLab that use Western languages. The biggest limitation is probably that it doesn’t (yet?) support embedded fonts and will substitute one of the standard fonts instead.
The icons used in pdfButtonbar are Free Icons by Axialis Software: http://www.axialis.com You can freely use them in any project or website, commercially or not. TERMS OF USE: You must keep the credits of the authors: “Axialis Team”, even if you modify them. See ./bitmaps/ReadMe.txt for further details
Modules Summary¶| bezier | |
| buttonpanel | |
| dcgraphics | This module implements an API similar to wx.GraphicsContext and the |
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| vec2d | |
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