PDF and the web

[Rohit Khare]

Hi Wil --

>(I hope everyone who yelled at me about expiring demos is yelling at him.)

I indeed did curse Detlev for his time-bomb :-), especially since on our new  
network, I could go and retrieve a new personal copy, but not upgrade  
/LocalApps (takes a day to find a sysadmin) -- his timebombing was very severe  
and inconsiderate (a warning screen is quite sufficient).

The following comments are based on his new .70 release.

> Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "a UI for within document hyperlinks".

email-by-accretion: I loaded the book and thought for a second Omni didn't do  
internal links, but it had hiccuped and a few seconds later jumped to the  
page. So I revised my comment to say there was no cursor-change or feedback  
that it was happening. (Detlev uses a link cursor).

> For example, the current issue of the Adobe Acrobat newsletter, acronews.pdf, 
> just hangs forever

Well, PDFViewer .70 displays the document, but w/o font substitution it  
sucks. PDFView, using essentially pirated Adobe code, works fine

By the by, it's at
http://www.fullfeed.com/epub/acronews.pdf

Also, percieved performance of the other two engines is faster only because  
they draw each element in order.

Good luck with OmniPDF: it needs a bookmark tool, definitely, and a  
thumbnailer, desirably. (heck, Preview.app needs a thumbnailer -- want to make  
sure OmniPDF opens .ps, too ?)

Rohit Khare

PS: OmniWeb is still, hands-down, the most useful surfing environment I use,  
almost totally because of its bookmark UI, and WebStep-style integration for  
drag-n-drop URLs.

PPS: bug: do the right thing when we try to type into the Location:  
textfield. I find myself dragging out of the urlWell on the left a little bit  
just so the url pops up on top so I can edit the url in the upper textfield.