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- PDFView 1.31:
- - Text annotations are now resizeable.
- - You can now search for Text annotations.
- - Document info has been added.
- - The entire text of a document can be saved as RTF.
- - The functions 'search text', 'search annots', 'list all fonts'
- and 'save entire text as RTF' can be aborted by <Command-Period>.
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- PDFView 1.3:
- - PDFView is now able to find, select and copy text.
- - You can now choose the zoom modifier key: Alternate or Control.
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- PDFView 1.21:
- - Fixed a bug in the fit to papersize option (Printing).
- - Font substitution now uses absolute values of given italic angles,
- because the sign of the italic angle in a fontdescriptor is not reliable.
- - Fixed problems with NextStep 4.0.
- - My private email address changed.
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- PDFView 1.2:
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- New features are:
- - The page mode entry is evaluated and used, thus either bookmarks
- or thumbs are displayed automatically if requested by the file.
- FullScreen page mode however is currently not supported.
- - The open action entry is evaluated and used, thus documents
- may appear at page, zoom and location as requested by the open action.
- - Hyper links to other files are now handled, i hope properly.
- - The function 'Save page as EPS' has been added.
- - The 'fit...' magnifications and scrolling behavior have been improved,
- thus more documents draw directly to the screen even when caching is enabled.
- - A document frame is now memoried.
- - Again the performance of substitute fonts has been slightly improved.
- - URL (http links) are recognized and passed to a service. The service is
- configurable in the preferences.
- The print setup code has been completely rewriten. Would anyone like to
- support me in testing Level1 compatibility?
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- Some notes to claims William Shipley made for his OmniPDF and the other viewers:
- - It is not true that Objective-C is a guarantee for faster interpretation.
- To prove this try the last page of focus.pdf from the Acrobat CD for example.
- - It is true that PDFView is slower when it has to do font substitution.
- Sophisticated font substitution has a price, on the Mac even a special
- waitcursor appears when the ATM computes substitute fonts.
- - PDFView does no longer use foreign code.
- - I wonder in which sense OmniPDF outputs print jobs that obey the DSC
- more than any other NextStep application. In particular PDFView is
- able to output print jobs with different paper formats for each page
- or to fit all pages on one common paper format, not so OmniPDF (Version 1.32).
- In addition PDFView produces Level1 compatible PostScript, correct DSC comments
- for binary data and hexadecimal data if your printer communication does not
- allow binary data.
- - PDFView has an explicit application wide cache size limit. This is important
- for two reasons. First the time to draw a page into a cache at zoom factors
- above 200 percent grows substantially. Second, which also is the reason for
- first, the size of the offscreen buffer - the cache - for a letter page at
- zoom 400 percent reaches nearly 30 MB on a true color system. Magnifications
- may ocur without a users explicit intention due to hyperlinks which may request
- an arbitrary rectangle to be magnified. OmniPDF currently avoids magnifications
- requested by hyperlinks.
- - Last it is surprising that, though less functionality, OmniPDF is nearly twice
- as large as PDFView 1.1.
- - PDFView is supported by me. Contact addresses below.
- I have one suggestion to William Shipley:
- Make an open interface for OmniWeb and i will implement it for PDFView.
- Than let users decide which viewer they like to use.
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- PDFView 1.1:
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- New features are:
- - The page is now centered in its view and the window
- can be resized freely.
- - The fit page options are now explicitly 'fit width',
- 'fit height' and 'fit'.
- - The content of a page may be cached up to a user defined
- cache size limit.
- - Hyper links are handled more seriously. A border
- is drawn if requested and the mouse turns red above
- the link rectangle.
- - Text annotations are displayed and can be opened,
- closed and moved.
- - A page overview has been added, where thumbnails are
- displayed if there are any.
- - The outline tree (tree of book marks) is offered for use.
- - A bug has been fixed which prevented font substitution to
- work on some printers.
- - The font substitution now takes more advantage of fontcaching.
- Thus the text display performance schould have improved.
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- PDFView 1.0:
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- PDFView lets you view and print PDF files.
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- Besides the basic commands in the display menu
- you can zoom a rectangle by halting the alternate key
- (this uses to be right Alt on PC keyboards) down. And
- you can abort this by pressing the right mouse button.
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- Further PDFView can follow the hyper links as long as
- they refer to the same document.
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- This is not much but a lot more than nothing.
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- Much pleasure
- Guenther
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- This Software is for free noncomercial use.
- You schould never pay for it.
- You are welcome to distribute copies of it
- as long as you don't modify them.
- There are no warranties.
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- If you have suggestions, feel free to contact
- me under the following addresses:
- guenther@onevision.de
- G.FUERTHALLER@LINK-R.de
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- Guenther
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