Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-01-16

Chapter 46. PostScript

ePDFView-0.1.7

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-6.5 platform.

Package Information

Additional Downloads

ePDFView Dependencies

Required

Poppler-0.14.4 and gtk+-2.24.8

Optional

Cups-1.5.0

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

Installation of ePDFView

Install ePDFView by running the following commands: 

patch -Np1 -i ../epdfview-0.1.7-fix_nonexisting-1.patch &&
patch -Np1 -i ../epdfview-0.1.7-fix_scrolling-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 …: These patches fix some problems, that can occur under some common compiler's optimizations.

Contents

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

Short Descriptions

epdfview

is the main program for viewing PDF documents.

Last updated on 2010-04-21 19:10:06 +0000