Re: PDF import?

2010-05-08 Thread Josh Mellicker
We used Automator on Mac to convert to JPEG, then stored the images on a card in the stack. I will find some non-copyrighted content so I can show you. On May 8, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: > Can I look at what you've done? Sounds intriguing. Do you convert the PDFs to > JPGs a

Re: PDF import?

2010-05-08 Thread Peter Brigham MD
Can I look at what you've done? Sounds intriguing. Do you convert the PDFs to JPGs automatically on the fly? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On May 8, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Josh Mellicker wrote: Peter, What we do is turn PDFs into individual JPEGs a

Re: PDF import?

2010-05-08 Thread Josh Mellicker
Peter, What we do is turn PDFs into individual JPEGs and we've built a cool viewer that offers single and two page display, jump to any chapter, does a simple wipe on page turns, and even plays randomly chosen page turn sounds if you want, which strangely enhances the experience! We also

Re: PDF import?

2010-05-08 Thread Peter Brigham MD
Thanks for reminding me of the tempname, I'll end up using it. Thanks to William & Jim for trying out the browser window technique for displaying PDFs. I'll get busy trying these work-arounds. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On May 7, 2010, at 12:4

Re: PDF import?

2010-05-07 Thread Jim Sims
On May 7, 2010, at 9:14 PM, William Roger Moseid wrote: > Regarding diplaying PDF file in Rev: By using command line qlmanage you can display a pdf file on OS X, much like one can in QuickLook. Evidently there is an issue about proper display of the title in the top of the window which might

Re: PDF import?

2010-05-07 Thread William Roger Moseid
Regarding diplaying PDF file in Rev: On Win, using the Rev Browser Demo, I entered the following string into the browser address field: file:///Users/williammoseid/Documents/About%20Stacks.pdf This 1 page pdf was displayed in the browser with all scroll, etc. controls visable and working Then

Re: PDF import?

2010-05-07 Thread William Roger Moseid
Regarding diplaying PDF file in Rev: On Win, using the Rev Browser Demo, I entered the following string into the browser address field: file:///Users/williammoseid/Documents/About%20Stacks.pdf This 1 page pdf was displayed in the browser with all scroll, etc. controls visable and working Then

Re: PDF import?

2010-05-07 Thread stephen barncard
Hi Peter, Not really. We are probably doing the things that "other" apps do - we just don't see it. Similarly, we can't do things like play audio from a variable - not sure why but it may be that there always has to be some kind of file to be a buffer for the audio to stream properly without glitc

Re: PDF import?

2010-05-07 Thread Peter Brigham MD
What I want to do is to import a PDF image into a stack as a customprop. I anticipate using this for sensitive documents that will need to be contained within a password-protected stack, and I don't want the files themselves left on the user's disk drive. It looks as if I'll have to store t

Re: PDF import?

2010-05-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Brigham MD wrote: I suspect this has been asked and answered before, but is there any way to import a PDF file as an image in rev? The import paint command doesn't list this as an allowable file type. Please excuse my age- related dementia, I seem to recall someone having some way of doing

PDF import?

2010-05-07 Thread Peter Brigham MD
I suspect this has been asked and answered before, but is there any way to import a PDF file as an image in rev? The import paint command doesn't list this as an allowable file type. Please excuse my age- related dementia, I seem to recall someone having some way of doing this, a library may