PDFs displayed in Player!

[Brian Yennie]

Roger,

This all sounds well and good, but I seriously doubt RunRev has any 
chance of talking Apple into porting PDF display to Windows.
Likewise, RunRev providing it's own PDF viewer implementation would be 
a colossal project. There's a reason why even Apple took a very long 
time to provide OS-level support, and most 3rd party apps that display 
PDFs still are actually powered by Acrobat Reader. FWIW, it is possible 
to write an external tied to Acrobat, but Adobe's licensing fees are 
beyond what most people are willing to pay.

I would say that we're most likely not going to see this until both 
Windows and MacOS provide reasonable OS-level hooks, whether through 
Quicktime or not. (Note: PDF display is possible on MacOS through the 
Quartz drawing engine - which is one level lower than Quicktime)...

> Even so, Rev is the product that we all purchased to produce
> cross-platform apps. If Runtimes 'easy' solution is to wrap QuickTime 
> into
> a player object to quickly support more filetypes, they should at 
> least be
> working 'for us' to convince Apple to improve those supported 
> filetypes to
> benefit everyone. If Apple insists that QuickTime for Windows will 
> never
> support the PDF format, then other actions should be taken to directly
> support the format. After all, PDF is becoming the most common standard
> file format known to mankind.