View a document TKinter

Question

I am new to TKinter and cant seem to find any examples on how to view a document in a window. What I am trying to accomplish is that when selecting a PDF or TIF it will open the file and show the first page in a window using TKinter. Is this possible?

Answer 1

A long time has passed since this question was posted but, for those still looking for a solution, here's one I've found :

https://github.com/rk700/PyMuPDF/wiki/Demo:-GUI-script-to-display-a-PDF-using-wxPython-or-Tkinter

Basically, it uses PyMuPDF, a python binding for MuPDF. MuPDF is a lightweight document viewer capable of displaying a few file formats, such as pdf and epub.

I quote the code used for TKinter:

This demo can easily be adopted to Tkinter. You need the imports

from Tkinter import Tk, Canvas, Frame, BOTH, NW
from PIL import Image, ImageTk  

and do the following to display each PDF page image:

#-----------------------------------------------------------------
# MuPDF code
#-----------------------------------------------------------------
pix = doc.getPagePixmap(pno - 1)      # create pixmap for a page

#-----------------------------------------------------------------
# Tkinter code
#-----------------------------------------------------------------
self.img = Image.frombytes("RGBA",
                       [pix.width, pix.height],
                       str(pix.samples))
self.photo = ImageTk.PhotoImage(self.img)
canvas = Canvas(self, width=self.img.size[0]+20, 
            height=self.img.size[1]+20)
canvas.create_image(10, 10, anchor=NW, image=self.photo)
canvas.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=1)