From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/2300 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Animated gif Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 16:11:44 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000614161144.0161dcd0@pop.wxs.nl> References: <394498D8.755A119C@econ.muni.cz> <3.0.6.32.20000613214840.0184dd50@pop.wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393089 7708 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:11:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:11:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Hans Hagen , "Christopher G D Tipper" , ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Ed L Cashin In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:2300 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:2300 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------