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