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date: 2009/09/22 13:33
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slug: BB833
tags: open source, programming, pyqt, python, qt, rst2pdf
title: More fun with rst2pdf, poppler and PyQt
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updated: 2009/09/22 13:33
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First: I really, really need a name for this thing. I am tired of saying "my rst2pdf previewer/editor app".

Now, here's a video of how it looks nowadays after all the yak shaving (sorry about my english, I **write** lots of it, but never **speak** it):

.. raw:: html

   <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cf0wZJ0ipwk&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cf0wZJ0ipwk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

As you can see, the basic app is fairly complete, even if it lacks all the amenities that would make someone use it (like, search? save? ;-).

It has one **big** problem, though: I can't publish it yet.

Why? Because I need to use poppler_ from PyQt, and the code I found to do it has no license (`see the code`_).

.. _poppler: http://poppler.freedesktop.org/

.. _see the  code: http://svn.pardus.org.tr/uludag/trunk/pypoppler-qt4/

I am trying to contact the author (Rajeev J Sebastian), so there should be news soon!

As soon as that's cleared, the PDF widget is a whole post by itself, because it's pretty neat, if I may say so myself.


**UPDATE:** the binding is now under MIT license, thanks to Rajeev Sebastian!