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[Pascual Lucero <question202460@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

New question #202460 on qpdfview:
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Hello again,


I have been following the developement of qpdfview in Linux as I use it as my default PDF viewer. In only a few months, this program has become a great PDF viewer, one of the best in Linux (perhaps Okular is more complete, but this program has better looks and is less resource humgry). I think it is already better than Evince or ePDFView. 

On the other hand, only the Adobe Acrobat version for Linux has something very important and useful nowadays: a browser PDF plugin; which works for the main browsers (Firefox, Chrome/Chromium and Opera). Certainly, given that Acrobat is a resource hog and definitely not the best option in Linux, one wishes another PDF program in Linux could have this plugin option.

In windows, all main freeware PDF viewers have browser plugins (SumatraPDF, Foxit, PDF-XChange, Acrobat) and it is only in Linux that we lack this option. Of course, Chrome has its own native plugin (which doesn't work in other browsers), but if we look at the other PDF programs, if we use their plugins, basically in the browser we see the same programs, with menus, embedded in the browser window.

I tested using qpdview embedded in Firefox by using the mozplugger application (a Mozilla plugin module) and it looks awesome (for example, Okular looked awful, because it has too much toolbars you can't remove)! ... of course, I had removed the toolbars in the default view, so it can have a more minimalistic look. However, given that the arrow keys doesn't work to change pages, the only way you can change pages is by scrolling the mouse (because the other keys have specific functions in the browser, so they didn't work with the viewer).

So, I would like to ask if it is possible to create a browser plugin for qpdfview; this is a very desirable feature and given that none of the other PDF viewers in Linux (with the exception of Acrobat, but most Linux users are reluctant to use Acrobat in Linux, and much less people willing to install Acrobat just to have a browser plugin) have this option, it would fill an important void in Linux. And this is something that might attract a lot of "good publicity" in Linux (for example having a note in webupd8 and other important blogs that feature interesting applications) and a bigger user base that can collaborate testing and possibly contributing to this nice project.

Thanks for your attention.

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