PDFs in QT Player -- Hot Links Challenge

[Jon]

I'm confused: if all you want to do is see a PDF, you can use Acrobat...

Roger.E.Eller at sealedair.com wrote:

>>Aiyo! (Lamentations)
>>
>>Windows won't play PDFs in QT...
>>
>>Richard: did that windows machine have QT 7 for Windows loaded?
>>
>>I'm sure you know this already but Apple just released QT with H.264
>>format capabilities for Windows just a few weeks ago... so I just
>>wanted to check if this was happening in the latest QT,
>>
>>Dan: in the top of the open dialog box when clicking the browse
>>button in a Rev QT Player, it defaults to "QuickTime Movie",  just
>>choose "All Files"  and then the PDF files will be available as a
>>file choice (OSX).
>>
>>But the "not on Windows"  really a show stopper for this project.  We
>>will call our friends at Apple tomorrow and beg!
>>
>>Sivakatirswami
>>    
>>
>
>Since you probably don't need to edit the PDF, you can use the shareware 
>Ghostscript to convert a PDF via command-line to a displayable GIF, JPG, 
>PNG or other raster format that Revolution will accept.
>
>The syntax is like so:
>
>gswin32c.exe -sDEVICE=png16 -r72 -sOutputFile=MyOutput.png MyInput.pdf
>
>And of course you can do this with Rev's shell capability, then load the 
>resulting image for display.
>
>Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com
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