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elias-sundqvist / obsidian-annotator

A plugin for reading and annotating PDFs and EPUBs in obsidian.
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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[Discussion] Alternate PDF reader engine (like Sioyek) #282

Open ryanwwest opened 1 year ago

ryanwwest commented 1 year ago

Academics and vim enthusiasts such as myself enjoy using https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek, a lightweight PDF reader with some ingenious, keyboard-focused features to make reading/analyzing textbooks and research papers much easier. Sioyek is written in C and itself uses mupdf as its base (also in C), whereas obsidian-annotator uses pdf.js.

Obviously Mupdf and Sioyek, being in C, aren't going to be plug-and-play with this plugin (I presume they'd need some sort of port to Javascript first and work in a browser, which maybe Mupdf already has). But I think it's great software and hope that someone (perhaps me, someday...) will make it work in a browser and allow its features to be easily used everywhere.

My question is then, assuming someone wants to switch out pdf.js for something else, what would it take to support a different reader/engine in obsdian-annotator? I feel like this can't be too difficult since the separate ePUB reader and web/HTML (it's buggy so sorta) already work in this plugin. But maybe I'm way off.

Also, would anyone else also be interested in something like this?

astkaasa commented 1 year ago

I want to suggest readium to substitute epub.js again.

GlobalCBWK commented 1 year ago

I want to suggest readium to substitute epub.js again.

Yeah,When I using annotator to read some epubs,Font Size configuration totally does nothing