Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-05-20

Chapter 46. 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-7.1 platform.

Package Information

ePDFView Dependencies

Required

Poppler-0.18.4 and gtk+-2.24.10

Optional

Cups-1.5.0

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

Installation of ePDFView

Install ePDFView by running the following commands: 

sed -i 's#/gmacros##' src/gtk/StockIcons.h &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

sed -i 's#/gmacros##' src/gtk/StockIcons.h: This sed fixes compiling with glib-2.32 or greater.

Contents

Installed Program: epdfview
Installed Directory: /usr/share/epdfview

Short Descriptions

epdfview

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

Last updated on 2012-03-26 15:20:31 +0000