On Feb 5, 2010, at 14:16, Duke Normandin wrote: > 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.
Ah, sorry about that, I didn't actually try it. I wasn't trying to suggest you were colorblind (not that there's anything wrong with it ;) just that perhaps this could be handled by a system plugin that replaced all white in a screen with another color. Probably more effort than it's worth :) Cheers, James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
