Hey people! I want to learn typst, a modern alternative to LaTeX written in Rust.

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Typst can incrementally compile the files to PDF.

Ironically, there is no incrementally refreshing PDF viewer afaik. So for direct visual output of my progress, I would like the fastest, smoothest PDF viewer.

  • Firefox loads too slow
  • Okular fast but nonremovable popup and “dancing text” on load

It can be as small and minimal for that task as possible.

Priorities:

  1. Smooth reload (fade or else) to not flicker
  2. Fast refresh
  3. Incremental loading ?
  4. Generally solid
  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netOP
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    7 months ago

    Could you explain? less would just monitor the binary PDF for changes and then pass that to any viewer?

    I think this is really helpful for barebones renderers, thanks! That will be a very good piece of the puzzle for a minimal PDF reader for this task

    • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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      7 months ago

      No, less has the LESSOPEN variable, which can be used to run input-preprocessors. lesspipe misuses that to run specific tools with specific mimetypes, in this case pdftotext for pdf files. It’s basically equivalent to running pdftotext -layout <file.pdf> | less. Though no images, for that the other tools.