diff --git a/examples/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/CMakeLists.txt
index d8b87884f..2521251f4 100644
--- a/examples/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/examples/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -108,6 +108,12 @@ IF(DYNAMIC_OPENSCENEGRAPH)
     ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(osgvolume)
     ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(osgwindows)
 
+    IF   (POPPLER_FOUND AND CAIRO_FOUND)
+        ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(osgpdf)
+    ENDIF(POPPLER_FOUND AND CAIRO_FOUND)
+    
+
+
     IF   (BUILD_OSG_WRAPPERS)
         ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(osgintrospection)
     ENDIF(BUILD_OSG_WRAPPERS)
diff --git a/examples/osgpdf/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/osgpdf/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fdb3a11d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/osgpdf/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES(POPPLER poppler-glib)
+
+SET(TARGET_SRC osgpdf.cpp)
+
+INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES( ${CAIRO_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${POPPLER_INCLUDE_DIRS} )
+LINK_DIRECTORIES(${CAIRO_LIBRARY_DIRS} ${POPPLER_LIB_DIRS})
+
+#SET(TARGET_EXTERNAL_LIBRARIES ${CAIRO_LIBRARIES} poppler poppler-glib)
+SET(TARGET_EXTERNAL_LIBRARIES ${CAIRO_LIBRARIES} ${POPPLER_LIBRARIES})
+
+#### end var setup  ###
+SETUP_EXAMPLE(osgpdf)
+
diff --git a/examples/osgpdf/osgpdf.cpp b/examples/osgpdf/osgpdf.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..79b9b6031
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/osgpdf/osgpdf.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,306 @@
+#include <osg/Image>
+#include <osg/Geometry>
+#include <osg/Texture2D>
+#include <osg/io_utils>
+
+#include <osgViewer/Viewer>
+#include <osgViewer/ViewerEventHandlers>
+
+#include <osgDB/ReadFile>
+
+#include <cairo.h>
+#include <poppler.h>
+
+class CarioImage : public osg::Image
+{
+    public:
+    
+        CarioImage():
+            _surface(0),
+            _context(0) {}
+            
+        
+        void create(unsigned int width, unsigned int height)
+        {
+            if (data() && width==s() && height==t()) return;
+
+            osg::notify(osg::NOTICE)<<"Create cario surface/context "<<width<<", "<<height<<std::endl;
+
+            // allocate the image data
+            allocateImage(width, height, 1, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE);
+            setPixelFormat(GL_BGRA);
+            setDataVariance(osg::Object::DYNAMIC);            
+            setOrigin(osg::Image::TOP_LEFT);
+            
+            
+            // create a cairo surface for this image data
+            _surface = cairo_image_surface_create_for_data(
+                    data(),
+                    CAIRO_FORMAT_ARGB32, 
+                    width, height, 
+                    getRowSizeInBytes());
+            
+            // create a context for the surface
+            _context = cairo_create(_surface);            
+        }        
+        
+        void destroy()
+        {
+            if (_surface) cairo_surface_destroy(_surface);
+	    if (_context) cairo_destroy(_context);
+        }
+        
+        cairo_surface_t* getSurface() { return _surface; }
+        const cairo_surface_t* getSurface() const { return _surface; }
+
+        cairo_t* getContext() { return _context; }
+        const cairo_t* getContext() const { return _context; }
+
+    protected:
+    
+        virtual ~CarioImage()
+        {
+            destroy();
+        }
+
+        cairo_surface_t* _surface;
+        cairo_t*         _context;
+};
+
+class PdfImage : public CarioImage
+{
+    public:
+    
+        PdfImage():
+            _doc(0),
+            _pageNum(0)
+        {
+        }
+            
+        virtual ~PdfImage()
+        {
+            if (_doc)
+            {
+        	g_object_unref(_doc);
+            }
+        }
+    
+        PopplerDocument* _doc;
+        int _pageNum;
+    
+	int getNumOfPages() { return _doc ? poppler_document_get_n_pages(_doc) : 0; }
+
+        bool open(const std::string& filename)
+        {
+            osg::notify(osg::NOTICE)<<"open("<<filename<<")"<<std::endl;
+
+	    static bool gTypeInit = false;
+
+	    if(!gTypeInit)
+            {
+		    g_type_init();
+
+		    gTypeInit = true;
+	    }
+
+            PopplerDocument* doc = poppler_document_new_from_file(filename.c_str(), NULL, NULL);
+            if (!doc) 
+            {
+                osg::notify(osg::NOTICE)<<" could not open("<<filename<<")"<<std::endl;
+
+                return false;
+            }
+            
+            if (_doc) 
+            {
+                g_object_unref(_doc);
+            }
+            
+            _doc = doc;
+            _pageNum = 0;
+            
+            setFileName(filename);
+
+            osg::notify(osg::NOTICE)<<"getNumOfPages()=="<<getNumOfPages()<<std::endl;
+
+            if (getNumOfPages()==0)
+            {
+                return false;
+            }
+
+            page(0);
+
+            return true;
+        }
+        
+        virtual void sendKeyEvent(int key, bool keyDown)
+        {
+            if (keyDown)
+            {
+                if (key=='n') next();
+                else if (key=='p') previous();
+            }
+        }
+
+ 
+        bool previous()
+        {
+            return page(_pageNum-1);
+        }
+        
+        bool next()
+        { 
+             return page(_pageNum+1);
+        }
+        
+        bool page(int pageNum)
+        {
+            if (!_doc) return false;
+            
+            if (pageNum<0 || pageNum>=getNumOfPages()) return false;
+
+	    PopplerPage* page = poppler_document_get_page(_doc, pageNum);
+
+	    if(!page) return false;
+            
+            _pageNum = pageNum;
+
+            double w = 0.0f;
+            double h = 0.0f;
+
+            poppler_page_get_size(page, &w, &h);
+
+            create((unsigned int)(w),(unsigned int)(h));
+
+            double r = 1.0;
+            double g = 1.0;
+            double b = 1.0;
+            double a = 1.0;
+            
+            cairo_save(_context);
+            
+                cairo_set_source_rgba(_context, r, g, b, a);
+                cairo_rectangle(_context, 0.0, 0.0, w, h);
+                cairo_fill(_context);
+
+                poppler_page_render(page, getContext());
+            
+            cairo_restore(_context);
+
+            dirty();
+
+	}
+
+
+};
+
+
+osg::Node* createInteractiveQuad(const osg::Vec3& origin, osg::Vec3& widthAxis, osg::Vec3& heightAxis, 
+                                 osg::Image* image)
+{
+    bool flip = image->getOrigin()==osg::Image::TOP_LEFT;
+
+    osg::Geometry* pictureQuad = osg::createTexturedQuadGeometry(origin, widthAxis, heightAxis,
+                                       0.0f, flip ? 1.0f : 0.0f , 1.0f, flip ? 0.0f : 1.0f);
+
+    osg::Texture2D* texture = new osg::Texture2D(image);
+    texture->setResizeNonPowerOfTwoHint(false);
+    texture->setFilter(osg::Texture::MIN_FILTER,osg::Texture::LINEAR);
+    texture->setWrap(osg::Texture::WRAP_S, osg::Texture::CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
+    texture->setWrap(osg::Texture::WRAP_T, osg::Texture::CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
+    
+    pictureQuad->getOrCreateStateSet()->setTextureAttributeAndModes(0,
+                texture,
+                osg::StateAttribute::ON);
+                
+    pictureQuad->setEventCallback(new osgViewer::InteractiveImageHandler(image));
+
+    osg::Geode* geode = new osg::Geode;
+    geode->addDrawable(pictureQuad);
+    
+    return geode;
+}
+
+class PageHandler : public osgGA::GUIEventHandler
+{
+    public:
+    
+        PageHandler() {}
+
+        bool handle(const osgGA::GUIEventAdapter& ea,osgGA::GUIActionAdapter& aa)
+        {
+            if (ea.getHandled()) return false;
+
+            switch(ea.getEventType())
+            {
+                case(osgGA::GUIEventAdapter::KEYDOWN):
+                {
+                    if (ea.getKey()=='n')
+                    {
+                        osg::notify(osg::NOTICE)<<"Next page"<<std::endl;
+                        return true;
+                    }
+                    else
+                    if (ea.getKey()=='p')
+                    {
+                        osg::notify(osg::NOTICE)<<"Previous page"<<std::endl;
+                        return true;
+                    }
+                }
+
+                default:
+                    return false;
+            }
+            return false;
+        }
+};
+
+int main(int argc,char** argv)
+{
+
+    osg::ArgumentParser arguments(&argc, argv);
+    osgViewer::Viewer viewer(arguments);
+    
+    typedef std::list< osg::ref_ptr<osg::Image> > Images;
+    Images images;
+
+    for(int i=1; i<arguments.argc(); ++i)
+    {
+        if (!arguments.isOption(i))
+        {
+            osg::ref_ptr<PdfImage> pdfImage= new PdfImage;
+            if (pdfImage->open(arguments[i]))
+            {            
+                images.push_back(pdfImage.get());
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    bool xyPlane = false;
+
+    osg::Group* group = new osg::Group;
+
+    osg::Vec3 origin = osg::Vec3(0.0f,0.0f,0.0f);
+    for(Images::iterator itr = images.begin();
+        itr != images.end();
+        ++itr)
+    {
+        osg::Image* image = itr->get();
+        float width = 1.0;
+        float height = float(image->t())/float(image->s());
+        osg::Vec3 widthAxis = osg::Vec3(width,0.0f,0.0f);
+        osg::Vec3 heightAxis = xyPlane ? osg::Vec3(0.0f,height,0.0f) : osg::Vec3(0.0f,0.0f,height);
+        group->addChild(createInteractiveQuad(origin, widthAxis, heightAxis, image));
+        
+        origin += widthAxis*1.1f;
+    }
+    
+    viewer.setSceneData(group);
+
+    viewer.addEventHandler(new osgViewer::StatsHandler);
+    
+    //viewer.addEventHandler(new PageHandler);
+
+    return viewer.run();
+}
+