Rendering PDF in PyQT5

[Tomas Sobota]

Justin, you could try Poppler. There is a version for PyQt5 (version >=
5.4) here:
https://pypi.org/project/python-poppler-qt5/
Tom

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 5:04 PM Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 02:28:12PM +0200, Justin Giffard wrote:
> > I have tried a webview in the past which seemed to work okay
>
> FWIW since Qt 5.13, QtWebEngine can show PDFs using Chromium's PDFium
> viewer:
> https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-features.html#pdf-file-viewing
>
> > but Paolo came across a C++ QT5 example that made use of a QPdfDocument
> which
> > I later found was held by the QPdfView. This had me excited until I found
> > that it would seem that this is not implemented in PyQT5. Damn another
> brick
> > wall.
>
> Qt PDF uses the same PDFium viewer from QtWebEngine internally as well -
> but I
> think it's still a Qt Labs "work in progress" thing at the moment.
>
> Florian
>
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