Victor, The IAC, by this account, only has support for Macintosh and DDE/OLE on WIndows. While some work on support for OLE 2 document formats has been done in the Jakarta POI project, I don't know that this will solve the problem of cross-platform support for the project you have in mind. If it's not x-platform, it violates one of basic assumptions of the Apache XML efforts (although users without access to Java 2 may raise their eyebrows at that.)
Peter Victor Mote wrote: > Ralph LaChance wrote: > > <-----Start-----> > Last time I used the Acrobat SDK (1999) it provided support only building a > plug-in to Acrobat Exchange (not free) - ie. adding functionality to > Exchange itself -- things like specialized searching, indexing, or > retrieving simple objects (including text) from the file, adding work flow, > modifying Exchange's menus etc. It provided NO support for rendering per se, > and, more importantly, had almost no support for modifying the (free) > Reader. > > Whether one could use a plug-in as a vehicle for tightly bolting acrobat > exchange is an interesting concept, but (in my opinion) we'd not have any > chance to doing anything useful with the reader. > <-----End-----> > > Paragraph 1, Chapter 1 of the Core_API/CoreAPIOverview.pdf document in the > Acrobat 5 SDK doc says: > > <-----Start-----> > The Acrobat core API is a set of interfaces you can use to write plug-ins > that integrate with Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. This chapter introduces the > core API, describing its object orientation and organization, and a number > of other concepts fundamental to understanding the API. > > Ways to Integrate With the Acrobat Viewers > You can develop software that integrates with Acrobat and Acrobat Reader in > two ways: > * By creating plug-ins that are dynamically linked to the Acrobat viewer and > extend the viewer's functionality > * By writing a separate application process that uses interapplication > communication (IAC) to control Acrobat functionality. DDE and OLE are > supported on Windows and Apple events / AppleScript on the Macintosh. > <-----End-----> > > There is a separate InterApplication_Communication folder containing related > documents. Again, I haven't done it, so maybe it is all theory that doesn't > work for the application at hand. And I don't mean to be argumentative -- it > just seems that writing a good PDF viewer would be a big enough task that I > would want to exhaust other possibilities before heading down that path. -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://powerup.com.au/~pbwest "Lord, to whom shall we go?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
