On Feb 19, 2010, at 23:22, Philippe Sismondi wrote:

> 
> On 2010-02-19, at 4:50 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> 
> <snip....>
> 
>>> 
>>> More important, from a Skim point of view, is it ok that the Apple's 
>>> postscript conversion api/utility *silently* produces a file with no text? 
>>> If the postscript is bad, should there not be some error reporting of this?
>>> 
>>> - Phil -
>> 
>> I agree that this is not nice, but the problem is also that CGPSConverter 
>> does not really have a good way to report errors.
>> 
>> Christiaan
>> 
>> 
>> Christiaan
> 
> I believe you, but....
> 
> I downloaded the trunk from svn. I see that in Skim code the ps converter 
> "messages" callback is set to NULL, with the comment the messages are not 
> usually useful.
> 
> But maybe it would be worth setting this callback to see if the Apple API is 
> reporting something?

Well, that's what I just did on my local copy. And as I said, nothing was 
reported.

> 
> I already tried to do this myself, but I am not sure how to build Skim. As I 
> said, I downloaded the trunk. Then, I opened Skim.xcodeproj and tried to 
> build. I got six errors. Is there somewhere on Sourceforge that will give me 
> instructions?
> 

On the Wiki.

Christiaan

> Also, if this discussion should be moved to the developer's thread, let me 
> know. I am not subscribed to it, but can do so.
> 
> Best,
> 
> - Phil -

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