OmniWeb-l Digest, Vol 27, Issue 19

[Jordan Breeding]

For display WebKit should be downloading the file into memory,  
converting it to PDF, and then using the built-in PDF viewer to  
display it.  The "Save file as..." function in Webkit still saves the  
original postscript file.

Jordan

On Mar 24, 2006, at 23:05 , Chad Armstrong wrote:

> Cool, thanks for the tip.  I wonder if they will convert to a PDF  
> like Preview does, or if they will use some other format.  Any  
> insight to this?
>
> Chad
>
> On Mar 24, 2006, at 10:52 PM, Jordan Breeding wrote:
>
>> FYI, modern Webkit.app from http://nightly.webkit.org should be  
>> able to read PS files as well.
>>
>> Jordan
>>
>> On Mar 24, 2006, at 21:12 , Chad Armstrong wrote:
>>
>>> Really?  That's a pretty neat feature.  I wish OW had that about  
>>> 5 years ago when I had more need to read PS files.
>>>
>>> BTW, what happened to OmniPDF?  When I was doing some research to  
>>> find a PostScript viewer, I found some old references to OmniPDF,  
>>> and even found an FTP site which hosts some old NextStep software  
>>> (which doesn't work on Mac OS X from what I can tell).
>>>
>>> Chad
>>>
>>>
>>>> I've discovered a strange thing about omniweb: when I click on  
>>>> a .ps
>>>> document, it does not download it but it displays it (which is  
>>>> nice).
>>>> However, I cannot see how to view anything after the first page. Is
>>>> there a preference I've missed?
>>>
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