Re: [Skim-app-users] converting postscript

[Philippe S. <psi...@ar...>]

On 2010-02-19, at 4:50 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

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>> More important, from a Skim point of view, is it ok that the Apple's postscript conversion api/utility *silently* produces a file with no text? If the postscript is bad, should there not be some error reporting of this?
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>> - Phil -
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> I agree that this is not nice, but the problem is also that CGPSConverter does not really have a good way to report errors.
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> Christiaan
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> Christiaan

I believe you, but....

I downloaded the trunk from svn. I see that in Skim code the ps converter "messages" callback is set to NULL, with the comment the messages are not usually useful.

But maybe it would be worth setting this callback to see if the Apple API is reporting something?

I already tried to do this myself, but I am not sure how to build Skim. As I said, I downloaded the trunk. Then, I opened Skim.xcodeproj and tried to build. I got six errors. Is there somewhere on Sourceforge that will give me instructions?

Also, if this discussion should be moved to the developer's thread, let me know. I am not subscribed to it, but can do so.

Best,

- Phil -