Hi, about five years ago I worked in a research project, which developed a PDF-browser prototype *) with horizontal fish-eye page view (with easily adjustable fish-eye lens **).
Unfortunately, the project didn't do much measurable usability reasearch, though intuitively the browser felt very potential especially for skimming through 10 - 20 pages long scientific articles: you needed only a glance to see location of all the pictures and tables in the article and after that it was easy to browse through them all. With current wide screen displays it could work even better. What do you think, how difficult it would be (if even possible) to implement a fish-eye PDF-view with current (mainly PDFkit and Core Image) or future (Core Animation) OSX frameworks? Just a thought, because I don't have any cocoa development experience myself. Thanks, Asko *) Screenshots - http://www.fenfire.org/buoyframe0.png - http://himalia.it.jyu.fi/ff/video/buoying-1.avi **) Interaction - LMB click panned to the clicked position - LMB pressed worked like a traditional hand tool - RMB pressed with horizontal movement adjusted the refraction of fish-eye lens from flat to sphere - RMB pressed with vertical movement zoomed in and out ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ skim-app-develop mailing list skim-app-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-develop
