RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-30 Thread Rhett Aultman
Heh...just give me some time. We might get Java 1.1 compatibility dynamically loaded yet. ;) -Original Message- From: Peter B. West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 7:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PDF Viewer] Utility request Victor, The IAC, by this

Re: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-29 Thread Peter B. West
Victor, FOP has no control over any downstream uses of generated PDF, clearly. Any project that works with the PDF is logically independent of FOP, so it would belong in a separate project, as you suggest. It would be unfortunate if folks got the idea that FOP was somehow more fully realised

RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-29 Thread Victor Mote
Peter B. West wrote: > > 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

Re: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-29 Thread Peter B. West
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. I

Re: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-29 Thread J.Pietschmann
Keiron Liddle wrote: > (One day I will convince someone to help out with HEAD code) The problem here is that HEAD is nearly as much of a mess as the maintenance branch, with the unfortunate disadvantage that it doesn't work. I'd rather put work into something which can be downloaded and compiled

RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-29 Thread Victor Mote
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) fr

RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-29 Thread Rhett Aultman
Solutions Inc. corporate offices at (435) 654-0621 -Original Message- From: Keiron Liddle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 4:53 AM To: FOP Subject: RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 11:40, RamanaJV wrote: > Ralph, > Your idea of "

RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-29 Thread Jim Urban
Inc. corporate offices at (435) 654-0621 -Original Message- From: Keiron Liddle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 4:53 AM To: FOP Subject: RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 11:40, RamanaJV wrote: > Ralph, > Your idea of "Fixing the awt re

RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-29 Thread Ralph LaChance
At 06:01 AM 7/29/02, I wrote: >Anyone volunteering to profile awt's memory usage ? Dumb comment. Sorry - Keiron's got the right answer ' Best, -Ralph LaChance - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-29 Thread Ralph LaChance
current issues with AWT renderer and step >accordingly. > >Ramana. > > > >-Original Message- >From: Ralph LaChance [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 3:06 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [PDF Viewer] Utility request > > >I agree

RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-29 Thread Ralph LaChance
At 01:33 PM 7/28/02, you wrote: >If it helps any, Adobe has a pretty comprehensive Acrobat SDK. Links to it >can be found at http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/sdks.html. I haven't >had a good excuse to do it myself, but my impression is that if tighter >integration is required, it could be d

RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-29 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 11:40, RamanaJV wrote: > Ralph, > Your idea of "Fixing the awt renderer" is the correct one. After a > deep thought, I too came to the conclusion that instead of writing a PDF > renderer, if we can tune up the AWT renderer, it will be great. The main > problem with AWT

RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-29 Thread RamanaJV
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 3:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PDF Viewer] Utility request I agree with Oleg's last sentencetotally - which I translate roughly to "lets fix the awt renderer" In fact, I'd add a 3rd (or 2 1/2) user - the one who wishe

Re: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-29 Thread Ralph LaChance
I agree with Oleg's last sentencetotally - which I translate roughly to "lets fix the awt renderer" In fact, I'd add a 3rd (or 2 1/2) user - the one who wishes to go directly from xml to a printer via fop. My colleagues here and I have inserted several changes to tweak spacings, borders, and s

RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-29 Thread Ralph LaChance
> >-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 suppor

RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-28 Thread Victor Mote
Rhett Aultman wrote: <-Start-> Yes, it's called Acrobat Reader. What's being requested is something a little more tightly integrated to FOP. <-End-> RamanaJV wrote: <-Start-> Acrobat reader is a outside application. If I launch it through a swing application, it gives the

RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-28 Thread Rhett Aultman
EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Fri 7/26/2002 7:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: [PDF Viewer] Utility request Folks, Excuse my ignorance but is the pdf viewer everyone is talking about provided already by

Re: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-28 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Matthew L. Avizinis wrote: It might also be helpful to recognize that as FOP becomes more popular there > are distinctly _two_ groups of "users" emerging. The first group has been > using FOP from the beginning and those are the Java developers who use FOP > to create some other end product. R

RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-27 Thread RamanaJV
ople 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 support

Re: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-26 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Ralph LaChance wrote: > At 12:46 PM 7/25/02, you wrote: > >> After seeing the OutOfMemoryError, the AWT renderer is >> causing, why >> don't thinking of providing a PDF viewer in the FOP itself. I think, this >> will be useful so much. I don't think people couldn't have ever thought >> a

Re: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-26 Thread Mark Malone
Folks, Excuse my ignorance but is the pdf viewer everyone is talking about provided already by Adobe on a huge number of platforms and called acrobat reader? Or is it something else that is being requested? Also, pdf file reading is built into MacOS X as is pdf generation via native print t

Re: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-25 Thread Ralph LaChance
At 12:46 PM 7/25/02, you wrote: > After seeing the OutOfMemoryError, the AWT renderer is causing, why >don't thinking of providing a PDF viewer in the FOP itself. I think, this >will be useful so much. I don't think people couldn't have ever thought >about it, but is it diffucult to do so?

RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-25 Thread Victor Mote
Ramana wrote: > ... why don't thinking of providing a PDF viewer in the FOP itself. Perhaps I am missing something. Is the freely available Acrobat Reader insufficient for the task? Victor Mote (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Enterprise Outfitters (www.outfitr.com) 2025 Eddington Way Colorado Spring

RE: [PDF Viewer] Utility request

2002-07-25 Thread Rhett Aultman
I see FOP's role as being a data transformer first and foremost. We may want to consider packaging a PDF viewer with FOP, but I'd recommend against putting it *IN* FOP. -Original Message- From: RamanaJV [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTEC