On Feb 5, 2010, at 18:35, 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 > soemthing 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! ;)) > -- > duke
Sorry, I really don't think it's worth the extra clutter and inconsistency. My threshold for adding more stuff to the preferences and/or menus is pretty high (I've explained that loads of time now). At most as some kind of hidden feature, or perhaps through AppleScript. 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
