2009-10-22

Update for the clutter-1.0 library (as found in ubuntu 9.10).

After make you shoud call pdfcube this way:

./pdfcube file:///full/path/to/file.pdf

2009-02-01 

The plan is to first develop a solid base for the future of pdfcube:
some high-level C++ interface for multipage documents (With a first
implementation for PDFs followed by PS documents and image collection
implementations) that can be used by a generic viewer interface with
pluggable index and transition effects.

I think we don't need effects in reverse, but we need plain swap to a
random page without flickering. So the strategy can be to have all
pages rendered in low resolution (low end hardware can rendere low res
version of a 100 page in a few seconds, but we will need a progress
indicator of some kind at document load) and to memorize in hi res
only the current and the following page.

Clutter seems to be the most supported API to manage 2d objects in a
3d world. Most effects are really easy to achieve with it.  Simple
page turn and some "twirl" effects can also be achieved with
ClutterTextureOdo (in the toys folder).

Let's work.