[(slightly) OT] Re: Docs
[(slightly) OT] Re: Docs
- Subject: [(slightly) OT] Re: Docs
- From: Tommy Knowlton <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:09:27 -0600
I wouldn't install Acrobat Reader on my Mac OS X system if it were the
last PDF reader left in the world!
Somewhat more on-topic, my recent dissatisfaction with Adobe, as well as
with Acrobat Reader (for one, it doesn't respond to the scroll wheel on
my mouse) has prompted me to look into writing a Cocoa app ala
Preview.app except that it parses the PDF to facilitate hypertext
linking and searching, as does Reader.
Wish me luck, by Monday I had achieved more-or-less equivalent
functionality with Preview.app. Now, I am trying to understand the PDF
well enough to make a parsing strategy sufficient to extract the links.
I think a first-cut UI will place links in a list view, rather than try
to subclass NSImageView to make the hotspots. Though eventually, I think
that's where I want to go.
FWIW,
--Tk!
On Wednesday, August 22, 2001, at 07:27 PM, cocoa-dev-
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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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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