seeking method for both hyperlink and text search in pdf image

[Karl Kuehn]

On Jan 6, 2005, at 1:00 PM, john_oshea at wordbank.com wrote:

>> The reason for the omission is not that peculiar: Apple provides a 
>> lot of support for generating PDFs for printing and for saving to a 
>> file, but that support does not include things like hyperlinks. Thus, 
>> exporting links into PDF requires Graffle to manually generate a 
>> bunch of the required PDF instead of depending upon the operating 
>> system.  You will all be happy to know that this will happen in 
>> OmniGraffle 4, so Michael Singer's original request for hyperlinking 
>> and text searchability will be possible without any extra software 
>> soon.
>
> <ears perk up>
>
> And what are the chances of an Omni framework containing said 
> PDF-generating code being released separately at some point (either as 
> source code, or under licence)? While we don't have a massive need for 
> this, I'm imagining it would be much preferable to playing with 
> Adobe's SDK  ;-)

	Seeing as Apple also has a PDFKit mentioned on their public developer 
overview of 10.4 I wonder if this will either: a) be a Tiger-only 
feature, or b) might not be worth the developer time that Omni would 
have to put into it to generate their own. I guess it all depends on 
how important this feature is for people who aren't going to instantly 
update to 10.4.
	My guess is that the 10.4 adoption is going to be pretty fast among 
those people who buy software of this level. And the breakdown of OS's 
that the OmniGroup posted a little while ago (on this list?) would tend 
to indicate that their customer base sticks to the latest OS. I know 
that I am trying to figure out right now how to budget my money: $129 
for the boxed release, or the $500 for the Tiger early-release kit. 
(Since I will probably buy at least one new computer this year, and 
probably WebObjects, I think that there is a good chance this would 
more than pay for itself.)
	Since PDFKit is supposed to be similar to WebKit, there is a chance 
that it will be very easy to use, and since it would be under active 
Apple development, I would guess that anything that Omni would produce 
would only be valuable for 10.3 (and under?).

		Karl Kuehn
			larkost at softhome.net