Yep, this is OK. My thought was a viewer that can be
1. Added to the panel component (or)
2. A PDFEditorKit, as we have HTMLEditorKit.
Acrobat reader is a outside application. If I launch it through a swing
application, it gives the splash screen etc. etc. The idea is to develop a
viewer which can be part of the swing application.
Ramana.
Rhett Aultman Wrote:
I can't speak for others, but this has never been a problem in my time as a
user of FOP. My general FO document development process:
1) Fiddle with FO document
2) Run through FOP, producing PDF file
3) Point my web browser at the PDF file
4) Web browser launches PDF viewer, either as a plugin or an external
process (depending on if I'm at my Windows or Solaris box)
5) I view the document, closing the external reader, if necessary
6) Go back to 1, except I click the browser's refresh button on 4.
How much more simple could it get? If it's really that much of a nuisance,
why not write a .BAT file or other form of shell script to run FOP and then
launch a PDF reader to read the file? The process of doing so is fairly
simple and direct. I'm fairly sure that most people using FOP can follow
such a process.
-----Original Message-----
From: RamanaJV [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 5:24 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request
After a little bit of exploration, I found that the JavaBean adobe gives is
not supported at all and the license tell it clear that it could contain
bugs. That JavaBean is not worth talking. When I search the web, I found
that all the activity is going in PDF creation, manipulation etc. etc. There
are good number of API's dealing with it.
But, how much worth is a creator, without a viewer. In 90% of the
applications the needs come to launch the viewer to be part of the
application. No user prefers the print the PDF outside and again open the
Acrobat Reader to see it. This lessens the competitiveness of the product.
FOP beautifully caters to the creation of PDF, but a viewer is very much
worthy and I'm sure the FOP with a viewer definitely strikes.
Excuse me, If I'm more user conscious...
Ramana.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph LaChance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 2:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PDF Viewer] Utility request
At 03:43 AM 7/26/02, you wrote:
>Anyone contacted Adobe to see if they wanna opensource it?
Two years ago I contacted them to explore source licensing to my
client -- without support -- for usage in a single product and they
couldn't say no fast enough ;-)
Later I got a back channel email from one of the developers
that mentioned something (I'm not quoting here) about company
loyalties to m$ which made them unwilling to play in the java space.
' Best,
-Ralph LaChance
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