MuPdf / Fitz

[Antony Courtney]

Tor Andersson wrote:
>
> I have not had time to read all of it yet, but there are some good ideas
> there that I will have to look further into. Are you perchance involved
> with the infinite canvas/pad++/i-cant-quite-remember-what-it-was-called
> project? I read about that a few months back, and couldn't help but see
> the similarities of that system with Xanadu. Very exciting stuff.

It's called Jazz:
	http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/jazz/
I was involved in Jazz a few years ago.  In the summer of 2000 I 
completely re-implemented the selection framework in Jazz to make it 
more modular and extensible.  Needless to say, I agree that the ideas 
behind Jazz (zoomable, scenegraph-based GUIs) are very, very exciting, 
and I definitely want to make sure that Fitz is an adequate foundation 
for doing that kind of thing.

After some gnashing of teeth and upgrading my XF86 installation, I 
managed to get mupdf installed and running.  Nice work!  I've just 
started to look through the CharCoal API.

I've found a few pdfs that cause mupdf to crash.  Would you like me to 
make them available to you somehow?

	-antony

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Antony Courtney
Grad. Student, Dept. of Computer Science, Yale University
antony at apocalypse.org          http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/antony