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…)