On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

>
> On Feb 3, 2010, at 6:29 AM, Duke Normandin wrote:
>
> > I assume you are implying that Apple's pdfKit is open-source? Then would
> > not appKit be hackable then? Or is the API the only thing available to
> > the developer?
>

> PDF Kit is not open source, and there is no API in PDF Kit for
> setting a page's background color; you'd have to use a subclass of
> PDFPage and handle all of the drawing.  For the page itself, this
> would be easy using CoreGraphics to draw the -pageRef, but I'm not
> sure about the annotations.  Also, this would not work for all PDF
> files, since some already have a page background.

It sure would be a boon to a *lot* of people (I'm thinking) if it
could be tried to see what could be cobbled together. IMO, the
annotations issue would be secondary to having a page to look at that
didn't cause major blood loss.;) Thanks for the input. BTW, are you a
developer?
-- 
duke

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