Version: 1.0

Posted: 2005-06-01

Build Requirements: Mac OS X Tiger

Runtime Requirements: Mac OS X Tiger

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Description

A simple application using the new Quartz framework, PDFKit in Mac OS X Tiger. When a user to open a PDF with the application it scans it for Link annotations that have a URL associated with them. URL link annotations are displayed in an NSTableView. As well, the PDF is displayed with these annotations highlighted.

It shows simple use of PDFKit including creating a PDFDocument and associating it with a PDFView.

It shows how to subclass PDFView and override the drawing method in order to render a box around Link annotations.

It demonstrates bounds-testing of text on a PDFPage (using PDFSelection's).

It also demonstrates simple creaton of PDFDestination's.

Document Revision History

Date Notes
2005-06-01Shows how to use PDFKit to scan for and highlight link annotations in PDFs.