pdf files

danielv at netvision.net.il danielv at netvision.net.il
Sat Oct 26 07:50:07 UTC 2002


Me too. Another thing I get to stop doing outside Squeak.

Though I get to most of my .pdfs using Mozilla, lacking a really good
Squeak web browser...

Daniel

Karl Ramberg <karl.ramberg at chello.se> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hans-Martin Mosner wrote:
> > 
> > Tim W wrote:
> > 
> > > A newbie question. Has there ever been an attempt to make pdf files
> > > viewable from within the file list browser ? Is it possible ? thanks,
> > > Tim
> > 
> > I'm working on a PDF displayer. It currently understands the PDF
> > document file structure, Flate-compressed stream objects, and can render
> > polygons and displays red blocks where text characters should be...
> > IOW, it's far from finished :-)
> > Main things to do:
> > - implement path-based clipping
> > - integrate with TrueType fonts, maybe add type1 font support
> > - implement more stream filters
> > - all the rest...
> > 
> > So don't hold your breath, especially since my vacation is over, and
> > I'll be unable to devote lots of time into it after this weekend.
> > However, once it's finished somewhat, it should be able to display
> > decomposable PDF pages (somewhat similar to the flash stuff in Squeak).
> 
> I'm looking forward to see this stuff.
> Karl



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