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m a d r a · May 13, 2004, 03:38 PM

sommit that bugs me on and off has just happened again today [and i don't mean that strange rash]. i''ve started reading a couple of hundred pages worth of PDF but now have to get on with something else. i've had to scribble the page number of where i've read to on a scrap of paper, so when i open that PDF next time, i'll know where i was up to. seems a bit primitive to me. in this glitzy modern world of computers, the intarweb and self-removing underwear, isn't it about time there was some kind of facility to 'bookmark' the point you've reached in a PDF thus avoiding the necessity of having to stick yet another post-it note on the side of our monitors, or even worse having to re-read something you've already read. thus increasing the danger of it 'sticking' and wasting a valuable brain-cell which might be better employed thinking about beer & kebabs?

the latest in an increasingly rare series of 'stating the bleedin obvious' posts from madra

[memo to self - fix feckin' sig graphic]

mindwaves · May 14, 2004, 01:36 AM

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=212329

m a d r a · May 14, 2004, 04:52 AM

great mind[wave]s think alike!

mishap · May 14, 2004, 07:18 AM

Originally posted by m a d r a:

[memo to self - fix feckin' sig graphic]

actually i much prefer the way your sig is now (blank) to what you had before.

m a d r a · May 14, 2004, 07:51 AM

Originally posted by mishap:
actually i much prefer the way your sig is now (blank) to what you had before.

the scary eyes will return!!!!!

philzilla · May 14, 2004, 08:23 AM

Originally posted by m a d r a:
the scary eyes will return!!!!!

these ones?

m a d r a · May 14, 2004, 08:36 AM

Originally posted by philzilla:
these ones?

who's that man of letters in the middle? is it the enid blyton of web design?

philzilla · May 14, 2004, 08:46 AM

Originally posted by m a d r a:
who's that man of letters in the middle? is it the enid blyton of web design?

more like the Ed Wood of web design.

Chris Grande · May 14, 2004, 10:51 AM

Originally posted by philzilla:
more like the Ed Wood of web design.

HAHAHAHAH... That made my day.

headbirth · May 14, 2004, 11:38 AM

Actually it's not just bookmarking PDFs but pretty much any text document that can be a problem ... apple should carry there url clipping technology further to support a bookmark clipping. just drag a selected passage of text to the desktop and whallah ... a link that will automatically open the doc you were in and scroll to your point of departure.

Or even a Service with a database of bookmarked pages would be great!

Any third party developers interested in making such a service?

Chuckit · May 14, 2004, 03:05 PM

Originally posted by headbirth:
Or even a Service with a database of bookmarked pages would be great!

Any third party developers interested in making such a service?

The way Services are set up doesn't really allow for this. A service provider doesn't get to look at the original document -- it gets the selected data sent to it (through a method basically identical to copy-and-paste) and processes it.

I imagine this would have to be implemented as something along the lines of an APE.

headbirth · May 15, 2004, 12:16 PM

What about some non-APE background dameaon.

Does anyone know if RTF documents support internal links like HTML anchors? that might be a better route ...

Chuckit · May 15, 2004, 03:48 PM

Originally posted by headbirth:
What about some non-APE background dameaon.

I imagine it would basically have to recreate the functionality of the APE, which is why I said "along the lines of APE." In order to tell where in the document a segment of text is coming from, you're going to have to ask the application, and I don't believe most apps advertise that kind of information. So one way or another, it sounds like you'll have to get into the program's address space and catch drags.

That's my initial thought, anyway. I haven't really done any research or experimentation.