Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd edition) - Version 7.6-systemd

Chapter 50. PostScript

ePDFView-0.1.8

Introduction to ePDFView

ePDFView is a free standalone lightweight PDF document viewer using Poppler and GTK+ libraries. It is a good replacement for Evince as it does not rely upon GNOME libraries.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.6 systemd platform.

Package Information

Additional Downloads

ePDFView Dependencies

Required

Poppler-0.26.4 and GTK+-2.24.24

Optional

Cups-1.7.5

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/epdfview

Installation of ePDFView

Install ePDFView by running the following commands: 

patch -Np1 -i ../epdfview-0.1.8-fixes-1.patch &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

patch -Np1 -i ../epdfview-0.1.8-fixes-1.patch The patch does three things: fixes compiling with glib-2.32 or greater, corrects red appearing as blue with recent versions of poppler, and allows the application to compile when Cups-1.7.5 has been installed.

Contents

Installed Program: epdfview
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directory: /usr/share/epdfview

Short Descriptions

epdfview

is a Gtk+-2 program for viewing PDF documents.

Last updated on 2014-09-21 21:40:36 -0700