08.30.06

ePDFView on Mac OS X

Posted in Uncategorized, ePDFView at 8:06 pm by Jordi Fita

First, no this is not an announcement of a Mac OS X version of ePDFView. It doesn’t make much sense to me, since Mac OS X has PDF support built-in.

My idea is to use my notebook as my main development machine, so I need a way to continue working on my projects. That means that I needed to install GTK+, but I didn’t wanted to use Apple’s X11. What I did was install GTK+ version 2.10.1 which has native support for Quartz, Mac OS X’s graphics subsystem.

I couldn’t resist the temptation to compile ePDFView with native GTK+, and this screenshot is a proof that I managed to do so :-)

Of course there are some little bugs, both in ePDFView and GTK+’s Quartz backend, but the application is still usable (most of time…)

08.06.06

New Computer

Posted in Uncategorized at 3:02 pm by Jordi Fita

t’s been a while from my last entry, I was waiting for my new MacBook to arrive. Since I’m a GNU/Linux user, I’m still trying to get used to Mac OS X’s interface, but having a terminal is always a relief :-)Oh, by the way, the 3rd PyWeek will be the week of September 3 to September 10,