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I would too, but

- To my knowledge, there are no sane C-based PDF renderers with a permissive BSD-like license

- Poppler renders to Cairo --- a _huge_ win because I don't actually have to do anything to convert Cairo surfaces to Racket's native drawing type

- I don't know / don't have the time to implement my own PDF reader/parser from scratch.




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