On Feb 4, 2010, at 4:35, Duke Normandin wrote: > 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
Before you make assumptions, let me be very clear: we won't drop PDFKit to go back to CoreGraphics, it definitely not worth it. It would be an enormous amount of work to essentially rewrite PDFKit from scratch, and AFAICS it would not even be possible using public API (I can only find read-only access in CG). Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
