Re: a better pdf clock

[Xander Schrijen <xges@phil.uu.nl>]

On Monday, May 21, 2001, at 12:05  PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I found out that this one runs well on acrobat 4 (exchange), 
> works but with
> messages on acrobat reader 4 CE, and works ok on acrobat reader 
> 5 [i have
> no acrobat exchange 5 here]. I wonder if this file works ok on 
> acrobat 4
> for linux.

Very nice!  It works in Acrobat Reader 5.0 for Mac OS X, but not 
in the standard Preview application.

 > Since max os x has a pdf screen driver, it should be possible to
 > write gadgets like this as os extensions.

Actually, I don't think OS X has built-in PDF rendering as per 
the PDF specs.  Rather, its native imaging model very closely 
resembles that of PDF, and there are system APIs to read/write 
content to PDF.  But rendering embedded fonts, for instance, 
didn't work in the beta, and I guess javascript doesn't work in 
the current version.

Xander.