Re: Animated gif

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:11 AM 6/14/2000 -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote:

>> PS. Someone should make a java (or perl) plug in. Seems possible.  
>
>Could you elaborate a bit?  You have mentioned that as a desirable
>thing before, but how would it work, what would it do, and how would
>one go about writing such a plugin?  

If you embed an annotation, acrobat will complain that it cannot find the
plugin. This means that any plug in that registers itself, like the web and
movie ones, implements a particular annot functionality. So, if we define a
parallel to javascript, say perlscript, and make a proper plugin, I think
it should work. That's how all plugins work I guess. The api is documented
and afaik available on the adobe site. I must have a dev kit somewhere; one
needs to get a plug in id code from adobe, but that's not the problem. 

The perl plugin would operate outside the reader. Maybe the active state
people know more about that, since they have something called perl script.  

Hans  

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