qpageview provides a page based document viewer widget for Qt5/PyQt5.

It has a flexible architecture potentionally supporting many formats. Currently, it supports SVG documents, images, and, using the Poppler-Qt5 binding, PDF documents.

import qpageview

from PyQt5.Qt import *
a = QApplication([])

v = qpageview.View()
v.show()
v.loadPdf("path/to/afile.pdf")

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• Versatile View widget with many optional mixin classes to cater for anything between basic or powerful functionality.
• Rendering in a background thread, with smart priority control, so display of large PDF documents remains fast and smooth.
• Almost infinite zooming thanks to tile-based rendering and caching.
• Magnifier glass.
• Printing functionality, directly to cups or via Qt/QPrinter.
• Can display pages originating from different documents at the same time.
• Can show the difference between pages that are almost the same via color composition.
• And much more! And...all classes are extendable and heavily customizable, so it is easy to inherit and add any functionality you want.

• Python 3.6+
• Qt5
• PyQt5
• python-poppler-qt5 (needed for display of PDF documents)
• pycups (optionally, needed to print to a local CUPS server)