There is some work in Gtk2 to use the Poppler library to display pdfs, but on Tk, if pdftk dosn't work for you, I would suggest using ImageMagick to convert the pdf to png or jpg, then use Tk to display it. That won't be perfect as links and paging will be lost. Another suggestion is to fork open xpdf from Tk, in it's own window.

If all you want is a preview window, then converting with ImageMagick to a thumbnail might be good. See Conver PDF to Image( JPG , JPEG , etc. ) and here is a simple converter. You can use IM blobs to avoid writing temp files, if needed. There are ways for Tk to directly display IM blobs; see Tk and ImageMagick 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Image::Magick;

my $img = Image::Magick->new;
$img->Read('zzimage.pdf');

$img->Rotate(-90); #if portrait/lanscape causes problem

$img->set('magick'=>'jpeg');

$img->Write(filename=>'zzzzimage.jpg');

__END__

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In reply to Re: Including a PDF in Perl/Tk by zentara
in thread Including a PDF in Perl/Tk by Joe_

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