Re: NSImageView as PDF previewer

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2007-03-22 16:33:26 +0200 Nicolas Roard <nicolas.roard@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3/22/07, Charles philip Chan <cpchan@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > On 22 Mar 2007, ahoesch@smartsoft.de wrote:
> >
> > I am taking awide guess here.
> >
> > > On MacOSX one can see the PDF in the image view (scaled down). Very
> > > neat! This does not work under GNUstep. Anybody know what the problem
> > > is,
> >
> > MacOSX uses Display PDF, while GNUstep doesn't.
>
> Not really... it's simply because Cocoa has an implementation of
> NSPDFImageRep while we don't.
>
> see https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?993
>
> > > what had to be done to make it work?
> >
> > Try using Enrico's PDFkit.

Well, it's not my work; the author is Stefan Kleine Stegemann; I've only made 
it to work (again) with a recent xpdf and added some methods to extract text 
contents.

> Doesn't it actually provides an implementation of NSPDFImageRep ?

It has a PDFImageRep class, subclass of NSImageRep.