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C++ libraries for rendering PDFs

I'm looking for a (preferably LGPL'ed) PDF-rendering library that I can use on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux using C++. So far I found:(updated with content from answers below) Poppler GPL very easy to use Qt4-backend GhostScript GPL (depending on the version of GhostScript) command line only does not support PDF boxes MuPDF (Sumatr...

3D Software Renderer with VB6

Hi, I am IT student and I have to make a project in VB6, I was thinking to make a 3D Software Renderer but I don't really know where to start, I found a few tutorials but I want something that goes in depth with the maths and algorithms, I will like something that shows how to make 3D transformations, Camera, lights, shading ... It does...

Open source C/C++ 3d renderer (with support of 3ds max models)

Best, smallest, fastest, open source, C/C++ 3d renderer (with support of 3ds max models), better not GPL, It should support Lights, textures (better dynamic), simple objects, It should be really fast and it shall have lots of use examples ...

Zend Framework: How can I tap into the final view output before it's sent to the browser?

Hi there, I'm trying to access the final xhtml output right before it's sent to the browser as a string. The postDispatch() methods of the actions and plugins seem to be too early to do this. When I step through Zend_Controller_Front::dispatch() method using a debugger, I can access the desired output as a string right before $this->_re...

Load image into memory immediately

I need to open all frames from Tiff image in WPF into memory and then delete the source. And after that I eventually need to render that image (resized according to window size). My solution is quite slow and I cannot delete file source before the first require. Any best practices? ...

Render Embedded Fonts to a BitmapData in AS3 / Flex

It seems that rendering fonts to a BitmapData in Flex is quite easy. You create a TextField, populate its properties, and the BitmapData's .draw() will accept it. The problem comes in when you attempt to enable embedded fonts. Here is an example of what I'm trying to do: ResourceManager.as: public final class ResourceManager { /* .......

How to render a printable image from a SWF

I'm working on a project at the moment where the client uses an off-the-shelf Flash library to display data against a map. It's a SWF that we feed some XML data and it renders it in various ways, such as a map of the UK with each county represented with a different colour depending on the data we feed it. As it's an off the shelf, we on...

Font Rendering between Mozilla and webkit

I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the recent Safari update, but I'm beginning to notice this a lot. There is a drastic difference in the way each browser is rendering fonts. for instance, I took screenshots of what I am seeing here on stackoverflow... http://twitpic.com/q43eh I have verified that this is a trend via my co-wo...

Trailing/Smeared WPF 3D Drawings on Mouse Move event using ScreenSpaceLines3D (C#)

Hi, I'm having a problem when drawing a 3D line on MouseMove event in WPF. The drawing seemed to be trailing (like mouse cursor-trailing effect)/smeared in Viewport3D, and it doesnt 'clean' the previous drawing (from previous mouse move) I'm using ScreenSpaceLines3D from CodePlex to draw the 3D line on top of a 3D cube. I want it to b...

How to show some animation while control is rendering?

I have WPF ListBox that shows a lot of data. I need smooth scrolling, so I've set ListBox.ScrollViewer.CanContentScroll to False that disables virtualization. Now when I open tab where this ListBox is placed, I see nothing for few seconds because ListBox is loading/creating items/rendering. I also have a control that shows some animation...

ASP.NET MVC Spark view engine for designers, do they like it?

I am in the process of building a large asp.net Mvc project and have a question regarding the default rendering engine opposed to the MVC Spark engine in the context for designers. I am all in favour of reducing my tag soup and can see that the spark engine is neat, very neat and I for one would welcome it. However does anyone have an e...

ParaView: Setup a Tiled-Display on a Windows XP Rendering Cluster

Hi, I try to ask my question here because nobody on paraview mailing-list answered until now. I try to get a tiled display to work with ParaView, so here is my setup: I have 3 Windows XP machines each equiped with graphic cards. Each graphics card is connected to a monitor, so I want to get my ParaView output on that three monitors. I ...

Internet Explorer not rendering html returned from JQuery ajax post

I have a page with an input box whose onkeyup fires a JQuery ajax post based on what was typed (a search field) The ajax call's posted back html is supposed to populate another div on the page. Here is the jquery ajax post: var o = $(me.results).empty().addClass("aj3load"); $.ajax({ type: "POST", dataType: "text", url: me.url, ...

Why doesn't this page render correctly in Internet Explorer?

Have a look at this page: http://labs.pieterdedecker.be/hetoog/layout.htm It looks alright in Firefox, but IE messes it up. How come? ...

Is this WPF ProgressBar Odd render behaviour a Bug?

Hope someone can help. I have a simple scenario where clicking checkboxes is driving a progress bar in WPF. The checkboxes are contained in a UserControl and the Progress bar is in a simple WPF client window. On the user control I am using two dependency properties: 1) the existing Tag property has the value I wish to bind to the progres...

What optimizations does a browser perform when a DOM element is being rendered off screen?

I control an iframe being rendered on another domain. Is there a clear way of telling whether this iframe is being rendered above or below the fold on the parent page? Obviously, I can't access the parent DOM because of the same origin policy restriction. For example, I tried measuring the speed of rendering on a canvas or VML tag, hopi...

Firefox + long thumbnail list => img rendering issue

Hi, been searching a while to no avail. I have a photo gallery page with a flash slideshow player (imagerotator). Underneath I am showing thumbnails of all gallery images in one line w/horizontal scrolling. Now when that list gets long, all thumbs after an arbitrary number (somewhere between 50 and 80) are rendered plain white upon fi...

Optimizing a pinhole camera rendering system

Hello, I'm making a software rasterizer for school, and I'm using an unusual rendering method instead of traditional matrix calculations. It's based on a pinhole camera. I have a few points in 3D space, and I convert them to 2D screen coordinates by taking the distance between it and the camera and normalizing it Vec3 ray_to_camera = (...

Prevent new render of CheckBoxList

I have an <asp:CheckBoxList> using RepeatLayout="Flow" in my page I dynamically assign values to. If the page is loaded the first time (!IsPostBack), the rendered version looks similar to this; <span children="Cat"> <input id="ctl00_Menu_Category_0" type="checkbox" name="ctl00$Menu$Category$0"/> <label for="ctl00_Menu_Category_0...

BorderThickness of 1 renders with a 2-pixel thickness - what am I missing here?

I've got a Border in XAML/WPF that I'm using to give a full-paragraph-width underline to text headings in a dialog. I set its BorderThickness property to "0,0,0,1". In some places, it ends up being rendered with a 2-pixel thick underline while in others it appears correctly as a single-pixel underline. What am I doing wrong? Here's the ...