Re: [(slightly) OT] Re: Docs
Re: [(slightly) OT] Re: Docs
- Subject: Re: [(slightly) OT] Re: Docs
- From: Brad Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:57:41 -0400
- Organization: Virtual School
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:09:27 -0600
Tommy Knowlton <email@hidden> wrote:
I can't abide PDF and it has nothing to do with Adobe. The whole notion of
duplicating paper's UI on screens has also seemed boneheaded to me. I
think a big part of the difficulty in learning MACOSX can be laid at PDF's
feet.
Along those lines, does anyone know of a converter that will turn PDF into
HTML files?
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I wouldn't install Acrobat Reader on my Mac OS X system if it were the
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last PDF reader left in the world!
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Somewhat more on-topic, my recent dissatisfaction with Adobe, as well as
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with Acrobat Reader (for one, it doesn't respond to the scroll wheel on
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my mouse) has prompted me to look into writing a Cocoa app ala
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Preview.app except that it parses the PDF to facilitate hypertext
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linking and searching, as does Reader.
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Wish me luck, by Monday I had achieved more-or-less equivalent
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functionality with Preview.app. Now, I am trying to understand the PDF
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well enough to make a parsing strategy sufficient to extract the links.
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I think a first-cut UI will place links in a list view, rather than try
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to subclass NSImageView to make the hotspots. Though eventually, I think
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that's where I want to go.
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FWIW,
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--Tk!
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On Wednesday, August 22, 2001, at 07:27 PM, cocoa-dev-
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email@hidden wrote:
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> Message: 7
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> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:03:12 +1200
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> To: email@hidden
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> From: Angela Brett <email@hidden>
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> Subject: Re: Docs
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>> [...]
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> What's wrong with searching for those synonyms in the pdfs with
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> Acrobat Reader? It works for me.
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