Hello,
I have the following problem: I want to make a commercial application from which I can view certain PDF documents. The application will be the only program the user can run. It will launch on system startup and keeps the user within the application. For the PDF documents, I found several options, but they all have problems:
- Use Poppler library. This is a great library to view PDF files from within the Qt application. Only problem: it is GPL licensed, so I cannot use it (link dynamically to it) without opening my source (which I don't want).
- Launch a PDF viewer from the Qt application. This way I can keep my own code closed source. But now I lose control. The user will be able to minimize the PDF viewer and launch multiple instances of it.
- Convert the PDF documents to HTML. This way I could use the Qt WebKit and keep the user within the application. But now I run into the problem finding a good PDF to HTML converter. I doubt if there are any.
Of course, my question is: does anyone have a solution for this problem?
Thanks in advance!
Joost
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