Am Freitag, den 21.09.2018, 15:55 +0200 schrieb pdv:
> I came across a deprecated call in the LinkBack code, and discovered 
> that LinkBack acctually doesn't work (anymore).
> Apparently nobody uses this?

Apparently. I only found this 8 year old bug related to LinkBack:
https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6961


> When the pasteboard contains linkback-data lyx saves the pdf-data + 
> linkback-data in a file with the .linkback extension and adds the
> size 
> of the pdf-data as a uint32.
> 
> When reading/rewriting back the size it's converted with 
> NSSwapBigLongToHost() and NSSwapHostLongToBig() calls.
> 
> I suppose that the "Long" refers to 8 bytes.
> 
> Replacing the calls by the similar "Int" calls solves the problem.
> 
> LinkBack then works with LateXiT and with Omnigraffle.
> 
> Enclosed is a patch for this and for replacing the deprecated call.

Alas, I know nothing of this. Stephan?

Jürgen

> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> P. De Visschere

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