Dear Cocoa-dev People,
I wanted to thank everyone for their helpful replies to my question: How to
save metadata for a PDF file?
Graham, thank you for confirming and clarifying "the Cocoa way." Your caveat
(problem with other pdf readers) was also well taken!
Ricky, thank you for your trencha
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Joel Norvell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Cocoa-dev People,
>
> First, I wanted to thank Aki Inoue and Rob Keniger for pointing out the
> problem with my NSData->NSString->NSData approach.
>
> As an alternative, would it be fruitful to use a Directory Wrapper
> From your original implementation of putting the metadata directly into the
> PDF file, you'll now end up with obviously a proprietary file. i.e. No
> application that works with PDF will be able to work with that file.
That is not at all true. You can embed the data into a PDF stream but
nev
On Oct 29, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Joel Norvell wrote:
First, I wanted to thank Aki Inoue and Rob Keniger for pointing out
the problem with my NSData->NSString->NSData approach.
As an alternative, would it be fruitful to use a Directory Wrapper
to represent the data as two files; one the metada
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Joel Norvell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Cocoa-dev People,
>
> First, I wanted to thank Aki Inoue and Rob Keniger for pointing out the
> problem with my NSData->NSString->NSData approach.
>
> As an alternative, would it be fruitful to use a Directory Wrapper
On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Joel Norvell wrote:
Dear Cocoa-dev People,
First, I wanted to thank Aki Inoue and Rob Keniger for pointing out
the problem with my NSData->NSString->NSData approach.
As an alternative, would it be fruitful to use a Directory Wrapper
to represent the data as t
On 30 Oct 2008, at 7:46 am, Joel Norvell wrote:
As an alternative, would it be fruitful to use a Directory Wrapper
to represent the data as two files; one the metadata and the other
the pdf? Then I could work with the metadata file, but just display
the pdf file.
In the "What could go w
Dear Cocoa-dev People,
First, I wanted to thank Aki Inoue and Rob Keniger for pointing out the problem
with my NSData->NSString->NSData approach.
As an alternative, would it be fruitful to use a Directory Wrapper to represent
the data as two files; one the metadata and the other the pdf? Then
On 29/10/2008, at 2:43 PM, Joel Norvell wrote:
I have a file with some metadata prepended to a pdf.
I want to strip the metadata off and display the pdf.
I was trying to do this:
- (void) loadFromPath: (NSString *) path
{
NSData *myData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:path];
NSString *myS
Joel,
The PDF is a binary data format. So, trying to decode with an ASCII
encoding vonverter would result in data loss.
I recommend processing it as mere bytes without mapping to a string.
Aki from iPhone
On 2008/10/28, at 21:43, Joel Norvell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear Cocoa-dev Peop
Dear Cocoa-dev People,
I have a file with some metadata prepended to a pdf.
I want to strip the metadata off and display the pdf.
I was trying to do this:
- (void) loadFromPath: (NSString *) path
{
NSData *myData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:path];
NSString *myStr = [[NSString alloc] i
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