Miro is a native pdf viewer for Windows and Linux (and macOS) built with iced and mupdf-rs.
Following some momentum from the last update we've managed to push out another release! This one contains two long await features; searching through documents and reading annotations (or comments).
As with most PDF readers, searching through the document is done via plain text but in this case can also use regular expressions! I wanted to try fuzzy finding as well but found no good way of chunking the pdf into a list of strings to search through. Do hit me up if you have any good ideas in regards to this, fuzzy finding is the best search method in my opinion and I would love to support it.
Annotations, or comments as they're sometimes called come in many different forms. Mupdf could already render the in-page annotations just fine which left me with the task of showing something for the sticky note annotations that pop up outside of the page. With some small upstream contributions to mupdf we could extract the contents and bounds of these sticky notes and show them in a simple popup which moves relative to the page.
Whenever I get around to it, I think the next release will introduce some editing functionality to annotations. That is however a big step for a program that has only been reading PDFs thus far.
Following some momentum from the last update we've managed to push out another release! This one contains two long await features; searching through documents and reading annotations (or comments).
As with most PDF readers, searching through the document is done via plain text but in this case can also use regular expressions! I wanted to try fuzzy finding as well but found no good way of chunking the pdf into a list of strings to search through. Do hit me up if you have any good ideas in regards to this, fuzzy finding is the best search method in my opinion and I would love to support it.
Annotations, or comments as they're sometimes called come in many different forms. Mupdf could already render the in-page annotations just fine which left me with the task of showing something for the sticky note annotations that pop up outside of the page. With some small upstream contributions to mupdf we could extract the contents and bounds of these sticky notes and show them in a simple popup which moves relative to the page.
Whenever I get around to it, I think the next release will introduce some editing functionality to annotations. That is however a big step for a program that has only been reading PDFs thus far.
Code is found at: https://github.com/vincent-uden/miro