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BePDF is a PDF viewer. Besides viewing, it supports annotating and user-defined bookmarking for unencrypted PDFs.

BePDF

This is a PDF reader that is based on XPDF 4.0. It handles PDF files up to PDF version 1.7 (Adobe Reader 9+).

List of features:

• Viewing of encrypted and password protected PDF 1.7 files.
• Opens file dropped on window.
• Navigation (with keyboard, toolbar, dragging with the mouse, mouse wheel, links).
• Displays annotations.
• Zooming (in/out, selecting a rectangle with the mouse).
• Rotating the page.
• Can show a page list, bookmarks and attachments.
• Window mode or fullscreen mode.
• Japanese, Chinese (simplified, traditional) and Korean font support.
• Renders embedded fonts (Type 1, Truetype) with FreeType 2 library.
• Multithreaded (rendering is done in a separate thread).
• Editing (Annotations can be added to an unencrypted PDF file)
• File Attachment Annotations and Attachments can be saved.
• Printing (range of pages; even or odd pages only; reverse or in order).
• Searching text.
• Copying text or graphics (via drag and drop to other applications (e.g. Tracker) and into the clipboard).
• Session management for PDF files on BFS (open file with the settings when it was last closed).
• Information (about the file, security, fonts used).

bepdf's Issues

Search history list disabled after browsing search results

After browsing the search results of Find Text (by clicking on the Find button) is the page history list disabled - the two blue arrows don't work.

Switch from libsanta to Haiku API

It looks like only ColumnListView is used from libsanta.

There are errors and inconsistencies in the title of the open file

There are errors and inconsistencies in the title of the open file in BePDF. Upon opening alice.pdf, in ~/Desktop/DemoPackages/.../alice.pdf, the file is believed to come from C:\ACTIVE\ADD\11B (nonexistent). Subsequent files show either the PDF filename, title, or an incorrect path (E.g. C:\BAD\PATH).

http://haiku-files.org/files/optional-packages/DemoPackage_Data-0.1-2012-02-19.zip

hrev48620

Slim down find window

Switch to using vector icons

Mockup:

Resizing main window detaches toolbars from their place

Open... menu items should show last PDF docs

File->Open... and File->Open in new window (which look redundant) should only show last PDF docs. Also their icons are missing

Status bar of creating new PDF file

When a file is Saved As a status bar "Saving copy of PDF file:" appears but it shows nothing and stays there even when the new PDF is already created.

BePDF can't save annotated files in-place (forced Save As)

Creator: Kevin Field
URL: http://sourceforge.net/p/bepdf/bugs/4

I appreciate this feature in the sense that it's a bit safer, but on the other hand, I wouldn't have lost nearly as much work due to the crashing bug if I were able to keep with the typical habit of saving every minute or so, which this safety feature prevents. Maybe there's a best-of-both worlds where it can rename the current file to " (copy 2)" or whatever and then save with the original filename whenever you hit Alt+S? That would make this much more useful, and even safer, for marking up PDFs.

hrev45525 gcc4hybrid.

Use BToolbar

Also replace toolbar icons with ones from http://zumi.xoom.it/myhaiku/btoolbar/index.html

Annotations aren't saved

Saving a file after annotations were added, those annotations aren't saved and are therefore missing when the file is opened again.

Submit bug report should link here

Preferences window is too tall

Fullscreen button breaks toolbar

Reproducible with annotation toolbar enabled

Sentence casing

Update text strings to conform HIG.

Gcc version error window when clicking image in PDF

Related to bug found previously. When clicking the PDF, the image (which has horrible quality: maybe related to the error) in haikuwiki.pdf causes WebPositive to open, and also the error window that complains about the version of gcc not being found. The bug occurs only when the image is clicked.

http://haiku-files.org/files/optional-packages/DemoPackage_Data-0.1-2012-02-19.zip

hrev48620

Merge docs branch into master

The "docs" branch should probably be merged into the master branch.

We have the problem, that building the PDF versions of the user docs needs ghostscript, which isn't available for Haiku at this time. So currently we'd only have the HTML version. While it may be nice for a PDF viewer to have the doc as PDF, I think going HTML-only is OK.

I also find the separation of headers, footers and templates, and having a complicated script to build it all, is overkill. How about (in the future) we just do static HTML? We can keep the "docs" branch around if we ever want to go back the convoluted way...

After fullscreen/window switch on all workspaces

Creator: Humdinger
URL: http://sourceforge.net/p/bepdf/bugs/1
This was originally reported by in Haiku's tracker at http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/4801.

After switching from fullscreen mode back to window mode, BePDF's window appears on all workspaces.

Error while reloading a file with annotations

When a file with saved annotations is reloaded it reloads OK, but I get following error message: PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table

Crash when closing preferences window

Closing the preferences window of BePDF results in the attached crash.
Culprit is the CountItems() in MakeEmpty() that is called from ClearView() of the prefs window.
Maybe there's no valid mList?

BePDF-2248-debug-15-01-2016-15-57-18.report.txt

Convert the rest of the menus over to BLayoutBuilder

The first one was done in 78bcb5a.

Visit Homepage still going to sourceforge

Reproduceable BePDF crash saving second round with annotations

Creator: Kevin Field
URL: http://sourceforge.net/p/bepdf/bugs/3

The following crashes BePDF in Haiku during saving:

1. open a PDF file (e.g. simple.pdf)
2. add a comment text annotation
3. right-click, choose Properties, type "comment 1"
4. save as simple2.pdf and close BePDF
5. open simple2.pdf
6. add a comment text annotation
7. right-click, choose Properties, type "comment 2"
8. save as simple3.pdf

Following these steps exactly, simple3.pdf is actually saved with both comments, but it still crashes (case 1).

I had originally been marking up a PDF sent to me generated using Mac OS X 10.5.7 Quartz PDFContext when I first encountered this, but since then I have reproduced this using simple.pdf, which I generated using StyledEdit and the PDF Writer driver.

Trying with the PDF sent to me but following similar steps, I've had (also reproduceable) the unfortunate result that it produces a PDF but without my latest annotations (this is both if I immediately choose to save a debug report, or try to debug, save the debug report, and then tell the debugger to continue)--in fact, the file size is identical to the version just opened containing the first round of annotations. So I'm attaching that PDF too.

hrev45525 gcc4hybrid, with BePDF installed using installoptionalpackage.

Error message: ..."Failed to get gcc version."

During normal use of BePDF, the following error message pops up (the error window had the stdout as well as the default stderr box checked).

hrev48620

Annotation bar is too wide

Missing annotation icons

The following annotation vector icons don't exist (yet):

ANNOT_LINK
ANNOT_LINE
ANNOT_STAMP
ANNOT_INK
ANNOT_POPUP
ANNOT_FILEATTACHMENT
ANNOT_SOUND
ANNOT_MOVIE
ANNOT_WIDGET
ANNOT_PRINTERMARK
ANNOT_TRAPNET

cc @humdingerb, in case he wants to try and tackle those

Splitter is too wide

Attachments panel opens with no scrollbar

You need to move splitter for it to appear

Switch Xpdf to MuPDF

HaikuDepot has a fatal error when installing BePDF, yet BePDF is successfully installed.

HaikuDepot has a fatal error when installing BePDF, yet BePDF is successfully installed.

hrev48620

PDFView::DrawBackground feels slow

For some reason right mouse selection feels slow. It was the same on BeOS so it's not a regression.
Selection mode in ShowImage doesn't feel slow.

Drawing error of document border

Wave a window in front of BePDF showing a document that is zoomed so you see the black border around it. You'll see some drawing corruption at the left and top border. Maybe some off-by-one error?

Upgrade XPDF to 3.03

This isn't as easy as it sounds.

The find tool is unable to find text in some situations.

At large magnifications (at least), the find text tool is unable to find text that exists in a PDF (example: Only finding Alice at the end of the pdf. There is no jump to found text, nor is the next instance of Alice in a visible paragraph highlighted. The page of the find is also missing.

http://haiku-files.org/files/optional-packages/DemoPackage_Data-0.1-2012-02-19.zip

hrev48620

Bug when searching for text that isn't in the file

When searching for text that isn't in the file, BePDF shows it appears on the last page.
It could also print some message that the text isn't there.

Remove link to bebits

Resizing main window cuts off vertical scrollbar

This is with 70c45e0 and bundled English.pdf.

Hand cursor has a dot at the bottom

Open bundled English.pdf and take a look at hand cursor when it's above main window.

Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap

Creator: @mmadia
URL: http://sourceforge.net/p/bepdf/bugs/2

In BePDF-1.1.1b3-r1a2-x86-gcc2-2010-05-08.zip from Haiku r38809-gcc2hybrid, the following pdf causes an Error Messages window with "Error: Illegal entry in bfchar block in ToUnicode CMap" to appear. This does not result in a crash or any immediately noticeable visual hindrances to the content. http://www.newlaborforum.org/Portals/6/PDF_19_02A/On%20the%20Contrary-Jones.pdf

Switch from liblayout to Haiku layout APIs

Not as easy as it appears to be. See also: #11

Attachment ColumnListView does not actually show attached files

I used pdflatex (pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015)) and the attachfile package (like this) to generate a pdf file with attachments. LaTeX inserts annotations into the pdf for each file included. BePDF correctly picks up the fact that they are annotations for file attachment and actually gives the option to save the attachments, so it knows how to handle them. However, annotations are not shown in the attachments view.
test.pdf is the file I used to test this.

Help > (bookmarks) doesn't work

Broken by 98be13827a848625bb6819b376a6ddf4b59307d3.

Add thumbnail panel

Closing without asking

A PDF file with newly added annotations closes without asking. It would be better if it offered to save the file as a new one.

Multiple annotation problems

Often, when adding a key text annotation, the right side (head) of the key is cut off, due to the size of the annotation bounding box being too small. The rest of the key can be seen if the box is resized, but by default it is too small to show the entire graphic.

In addition, the text in the annotation system of BePDF is difficult to use. If text with too big a font size is made into an annotation, the annotation is cut off. The resize box in the bottom-right of all annotations resizes with an "anchor corner" of the top-right, meaning the annotation scales downwards and leftwards, instead of downwards and rightwards, as intuitively expected. This also leads to annotations being cut-off; additionally, the resize box is extremely difficult to click.

The annotation images themselves are old 90's style BeOS icons, and look quite pixelized when they are enlarged to be the annotation on the document, as opposed to an icon in the toolbar.

hrev48620

[regression] fullscreen is broken

Search bar instead of a separate window

Find window should be converted to a search bar like it's done in Web+

No need fot scrollbar in Annotation bar

Also split bar should have reasonable max limit.

"Find next" shouldn't show find window

Choosing "Find next" shouldn't open the find window, unless there isn't a search string from a former search. It should just jump to the next match in the text.

Seeking in a PDF causes the page input box to be misplaced, and the text cut off.

Seeking to (atleast) a three-digit page in a PDF causes the page input box to be misplaced, and the text cut off. During entry of text, display is normal, but after seeking, the number is cut off at the second digit. This error remains for smaller pages, and is persistent across invocations of BePDF.

hrev48620