Re: [sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-12 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 Oct 2008, at 00:26, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: I was thinking along similar terms, and here's the screenshot of the latest version: http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/pdf_embed/Screenshot.png To get this in your own

Re: [sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-12 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Oct 11, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Walter Bender wrote: Does it even make sense to make annotation tools for PDF as a general concept? Why try to distort a proprietary, read-only data format into something it isn't. PDF is not proprietary. PDF/X-1 became an ANSI standard as early as '99, PDF/X-1a

Re: [sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-11 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct

Re: [sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-11 Thread Eben Eliason
The user couldn't annotate a file they don't have. Obviously we have to download the bits to a temporary location to view them, but in the normal paradigm of the web, nothing is permanently kept unless you explicitly download it. Perhaps an attempt to navigate away from the page could ask if you

Re: [sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-11 Thread Walter Bender
Does it even make sense to make annotation tools for PDF as a general concept? Why try to distort a proprietary, read-only data format into something it isn't. Wouldn't we be better served by converting from PDF to an open RW format when we save the files? -walter On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 10:11

Re: [sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-11 Thread Christopher Sawtell
2008/10/12 Walter Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does it even make sense to make annotation tools for PDF as a general concept? Why try to distort a proprietary, read-only data format into something it isn't. Whilst the Acroread and Acrobat programs are indeed closed proprietary products, the

Re: [sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-11 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The user couldn't annotate a file they don't have. Obviously we have to download the bits to a temporary location to view them, but in the normal paradigm of the web, nothing is permanently kept unless you explicitly

Re: [sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-11 Thread Gary C Martin
On 12 Oct 2008, at 00:26, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: I was thinking along similar terms, and here's the screenshot of the latest version: http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/pdf_embed/Screenshot.png To get this in your own XO (I used this on a clean install of 767), download the install the

Re: [sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-08 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, this looks pretty cool, actually. One powerful addition which I think is necessary in order to adopt this is the addition of a Keep button in that toolbar, by which one *could* download the pdf for offline reading

Re: [sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-08 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, this looks pretty cool, actually. One powerful addition which I think is necessary in order to adopt this is the addition of a Keep button in that toolbar, by which one *could* download the pdf for offline reading

Re: [sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-08 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, this looks pretty cool, actually. One powerful addition which I think is necessary in order to adopt this is the addition of a Keep button in

Re: [sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-08 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, this looks pretty cool, actually. One powerful addition which I think is

Re: [sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-08 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, this looks pretty cool, actually. One powerful addition which I think is necessary in order to adopt this is the addition of a Keep button in that

Re: [sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-08 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Eben Eliason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, this

[sugar] Viewing PDFs from Browse

2008-10-07 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
Hello, It looks like reading PDF files from the web via Browse is a pain, since, Browse saves the file to Journal, and then one has to go to the Journal and open up the saved file via Read (#8330). Can we treat PDF files like we handle media files (oggs mostly) by means of a Browse plugin ? I