On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, James Howison wrote: > > On Feb 5, 2010, at 12:35, Duke Normandin wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > > >> > >> On Feb 3, 2010, at 16:30, 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. > >> > >> Another, probably bigger, problem is that the PDF content may assume > >> the background is white, for instance it may contain graphics with a > >> white background. That will be very ugly when you change the > >> background color. > > > > True enough! However, this would be only a minor issue for me. There > > are _a lot_ of PDF documents that have no images included; and if they > > do, there might be only a few pages out of many that do have > > images. having the capability of changing the background color to > > something on the greyscale (for me) would be an immense > > boon. Be-that-as-it-may, those who do not need a different bg color, > > can leave well enough alone. > > > > Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! ;)) >
> This app suggests that it should be possible to overlay some type of > filter on the screen that converts all white to a specified color. > This could be a separate app. > http://michelf.com/projects/sim-daltonism/ Perhaps! However, this sim-daltonism app is a real PITA on my OS X box. Runaway window replications... Anyway, I'm _not_ color blind; just super-sensitive to extra-bright colors -- like looking at snow in bright sunlight for too long. Even "normal"/young eyes will start to bleed profusely. ;) Thanks for the suggestions. -- duke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
