[pygtk] Display PostScript files in PyGTK without conversion?

[Chris Cole]

Donn wrote:
>> but I'm not really sure how to display a cairo context or surface inside
>> gtk. I'm guessing you have to use a gtk.DrawingArea or something like
>> that but I haven't been able to figure it out...
> Hey, it's your lucky day! I just posted that to the wiki:
> http://cairographics.org//quickframework/

Right, right, I've seen this example...my question doesn't lie in that 
per se, but how to render a pdf inside a gtk.DrawingArea (or any other 
suitable widget for that matter). In the above example, when you call 
self.window.cairo_create() you're calling a method from superclass 
gtk.gdk.Drawable. This method returns a pangocairo.CairoContext(), which 
uses a pango.Context as the "context" instead of a cairo.Context. 
Basically I haven't been able to find a way to use a cairo context 
instead of a pango one to render a pdf document inside a gtk widget. I'm 
starting to believe it's not possible with the current API?

Also, I know there are the python poppler bindings in their infancy in 
launchpad, but unfortunately i'm stuck running feisty I'm fairly sure 
they're for gutsy.


Chris