PDFs in QT Player -- Hot Links Challenge

Dan Shafer revdan at danshafer.com
Mon Jul 4 17:37:39 EDT 2005


On Jul 4, 2005, at 2:19 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Dan Shafer wrote:
>
>> On OS X 10.4.1 with Rev 2.6.1, PDFs are not among the file types  
>> one  can load into a QT Player.
>> Unless, of course, I'm missing something. At least I don't seem to  
>> be  able simply to point a QT Player at a PDF file; the file name  
>> is  dimmed in the file dialog.
>>
>
> Good news:  That's just a filtering thang; from your own script you  
> can set a player to a PDF and it'll display nicely.
>
But not in the property settings for the player object? So I need to  
script the player to respond to an event to open a file at runtime.  
Seems kinda clunky. But I'll give it a go.

> Bad news:  This capability doesn't exist in the Windows version of  
> QT. :(
>
No comment from the guy who is currently wearing a T-shirt that says,  
"Friends Don't Let Friends Use Windows."

:-)

Dan

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