Roger,
This all sounds well and good, but I seriously doubt RunRev has any
chance of talking Apple into porting PDF display to Windows.
Likewise, RunRev providing it's own PDF viewer implementation would be
a colossal project. There's a reason why even Apple took a very long
time to provide OS-level support, and most 3rd party apps that display
PDFs still are actually powered by Acrobat Reader. FWIW, it is possible
to write an external tied to Acrobat, but Adobe's licensing fees are
beyond what most people are willing to pay.
I would say that we're most likely not going to see this until both
Windows and MacOS provide reasonable OS-level hooks, whether through
Quicktime or not. (Note: PDF display is possible on MacOS through the
Quartz drawing engine - which is one level lower than Quicktime)...
Even so, Rev is the product that we all purchased to produce
cross-platform apps. If Runtimes 'easy' solution is to wrap QuickTime
into
a player object to quickly support more filetypes, they should at
least be
working 'for us' to convince Apple to improve those supported
filetypes to
benefit everyone. If Apple insists that QuickTime for Windows will
never
support the PDF format, then other actions should be taken to directly
support the format. After all, PDF is becoming the most common standard
file format known to mankind.
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