Re: Disabling Display of JPG and PDF Files in NSTextView
Re: Disabling Display of JPG and PDF Files in NSTextView
- Subject: Re: Disabling Display of JPG and PDF Files in NSTextView
- From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:12:06 -0400
On Sep 14, 2005, at 11:53 PM, Kirt Cathey wrote:
Just one more rant.... it is rediculous to have to go through so
much to disable such a feature. Where does one go to submit a Cocoa
feature request to have this disabled? Most implementors of
NSTextView will NOT want a pdf to display in a text view.
Admittedly, some may.... those who are writing PDF Viewers (like we
need a dozen or so more of those) or parsing PDF files, but the
vast, vast majority of programmers do not want this. At the very
minimum, there should be a flag within NSTextView that programmers
flip with YES or NO to turn this feature off.
I think I'd disagree with this assessment. PDF is an excellent,
portable means of representing line art in a scalable fashion. TIFF
and other bitmap formats simply don't work for this, and rendering
that art at hi-DPI to make it "scale" isn't a great alternative.
While many people may thing multi-page files for PDF, they're equally
valid for images and figures in place of, say, EPS.
Images are displayed inline, and that's the common requirement.
If you need it to behave otherwise, that's a special case, and can be
handled by overriding NSTextView and handling those drag and drop
events yourself, subclassing the attachment cell class if necessary.
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