Rendering PDF files in PyQt4 with pypoppler-qt4

Poppler is a library for rendering PDF files used by GTK+ and Qt applications. There is a widget for PyQt4 and PyGTK. To compile those widgets you need poppler-bindings package with Qt4 and/or GTK support. Snapshot of pypoppler-qt4 is available on pyqt4-extrawidgets. To compile the widget execute python configure.py, make, make install.

In the package you will find test-poppler.py, which will open a PDF file given as the argument for the file. You can use up/down arrows to change pages.

import sys

from PyQt4.QtCore import *
from PyQt4.QtGui import *
import QtPoppler
from pictureflow import *

app = QApplication(sys.argv)

w = PictureFlow()
d = QtPoppler.Poppler.Document.load('file.pdf')
d.setRenderHint(QtPoppler.Poppler.Document.Antialiasing and QtPoppler.Poppler.Document.TextAntialiasing)

page = 0
pages = d.numPages() - 1
while page < pages:
	page += 1
	print page
	w.addSlide(d.page(page).renderToImage())
w.show()

sys.exit(app.exec_())

• Added: 02.01.2009 by riklaunim