Hi Christiaan, Many thanks for your quick response. Sorry to hear that you are the only Bibdesk developer at the moment, but you still seem to be churning out the updates. Thanks for the program.
I agree that the iLiad bundle strategy is not ideal, but I guess they felt it was simple to do it that way. Note that it works for all file types, not just PDF, which is necessary since the iLiad can read various non-PDF formats too. More responses in-line below... On 12/08/2008, at 4:38 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > BTW, I just tried to change Skim's PDF Bundle file type by using > a .pdf extension instead of .pdfd. And both Finder and BibDesk had > absolutely no problem with it. Although I expect this won't be working > on Tiger, as the only way to declare this properly is through UTIs, > and those are not fully supported by Tiger. I'm on Leopard, so this should be fine. > So the conclusion is that BibDesk does the right thing. If it does not > work for you for Iliad packages it's because Iliad does not properly > declare the file type, or you're using Tiger (in which case it's also > Iliad's fault, as they're asking for trouble with their setup). > > Could you send me the Info.plist from Iliad, I wonder how they declare > this file type? There is some confusion here. There is no iLiad Info.plist file since it's a separate hardware device, not a Mac app. Or am I missing your point? The basic problem is the OS doesn't know better, so when I view one of the iLiad-processed docs on the Mac, the finder opens on the folder, since I guess it's the default app for opening folders/bundles. I agree that the best solution would be to have an iLiad-specific file type, but we would still need one of the PDF viewers to register as being able to handle it, right? I confirmed that if I manually change one of the iLiad-created .pdf folders to be a .pdfd folder, then Skim can find the pdf file inside with no problems. > Anyway, I don't think BibDesk should try and fix this bug from Iliad. > Especially as this probably would mean special casing this situation, > which almost always is a bad thing to do. > > I also advice you to send a bug report to irextechnologies. I can certainly try that, but since they would need to update the iLiad firmware to fix this, I suspect they will not be too keen. They're not updating very quickly. Another idea I had is a script hook on a new event like "Will Open File" that allows me to intercept an open operation on a linked file and redirect it to an iLiad-created file if it exists. What do you think? Thanks again for your help. cheers, Tony ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-develop mailing list Bibdesk-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop
