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| author | Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists@gmail.com> | 2012-08-18 08:26:59 -0700 |
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| committer | Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists@gmail.com> | 2012-08-18 08:43:34 -0700 |
| commit | 8d3d670baf6bafc010ba18173d544179d034eb4a (patch) | |
| tree | 742e9dc88307c99e1324a94521fb21acce630e0e /README | |
| parent | 5876e7656cecc8378d275f90514e33c104dcece7 (diff) | |
Add and distribute README and AUTHORS
Add README and AUTHORS files describing the project a bit more.
Distribute them by removing the foreign option from automake. This also
distributes the INSTALL file, but automake will give us a stock one if
none is in the directory.
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
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@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +evince-browser-plugin provides a document viewer plugin for browsers +that support the NPAPI plugin system like those based on Mozilla (like +Firefox) and WebKit (like Epiphany). Currently the plugin depends on +using a GTK+ context from the XEmbed mechanism. That basically means it +can be used on GTK+ systems using X11. + +The plugin uses the Evince libraries, so any document formats it +supports can be viewed through the plugin. The two most common document +formats are PDF and Postscript, allowing it to be used like the Adobe +Reader product. + +One important note is that as of Firefox version 14, only GTK+ version 2 +plugins are supported. This means that evince-browser-plugin must use +Evince version 2 libraries if it's intended to be used with Firefox. On +the other hand, the current Epiphany browser on GNOME 3 only supports +GTK+ version 3 plugins. evince-browser-plugin allows you to build it as +a gtk2/evince2 plugin and/or a gtk3/evince3 plugin. See the help text +from configure for details about controlling this. + +When GTK+ version 3 support comes to Mozilla/Firefox, it will become the +default usage. There are two bugs tracking the support of gtk3 in +Mozilla's backend: + +https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627699 +https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624422 + +When encountering bugs with the plugin, you can contact me at +<dbn.lists@gmail.com>. Likewise, I also announce releases and monitor +the messages on the evince mailing list. You can find out more +information about that list and read the archives at: + +https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list |