PDF plug-in with all functions

Bill bill at bluewatermaritime.com
Sun Jul 25 10:54:29 EDT 2004


You are making me salivate. Especially being able to insert data in existing
PDF (or created) forms that are part of a stack. And nothing could be as big
a hog as Acrobat Pro.


On 7/24/04 9:03 PM, "use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com"
<use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> And all of that is a really good thing. AltBrowser (especially once
> available cross platform) is an awesome plug in.
> 
> That said, there is a much greater level of PDF functionality to be
> had. Imagine building your own custom version of Acrobat reader in
> RunRev, tied in with whatever else is in your application, with all of
> your own controls, and the ability to manipulate the Acrobat files
> however you want to, including modifying and re-saving them. Imagine
> being able to run handlers which get as parameters - the current
> document, the selected page, and the selected text on the page, plus
> keywords, metadata, and everything else the PDF stores. Continue
> imagining the ability to do a search in an embedded database, pull up a
> specific document, turn it to a specific page, and select text on the
> page. Or return a list of matching search results across many
> documents...

Bill




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