Re: PDFAnnotationLine problem

FROM : Vince
DATE : Tue Feb 05 20:08:14 2008

I am using Tiger.

That explains the interiorColor issue; I presume there is no way for 
it work on systems running Tiger.

Thanks much António,

Vince

On Feb 5, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Antonio Nunes wrote:

>
> On Feb 5, 2008, at 4:16 PM, Vince wrote:
>

>> I did a little more work on the PDFAnnotationLine routines:
>>
>> (1) As mentioned last time, its working well; but the StartPoint 
>> and EndPoint that "works" are those in the coordinate system of 
>> the Annotation bounds. If I use Page Coordinates, it is displaced. 
>> I'll look more into the code, but I believe this behavior is very 
>> distinct from the PDFAnnotationSquare (and Line and Link) which 
>> uses the Page Coordinates.
>>
>> (2) The interior color does not seem to work for the line. The 
>> documentation for the constants for the Line Style indicates that 
>> the interior of the markers for the beginning and end of line 
>> (e.g., square, arrow or whatever) is filled by the interior color.
>>
>> (3) I can't figure out to set the interior color for Line. 
>> Square / Circle has a setInteriorColor method; but the Line does 
>> not as indicated by the methods in the .h file copied below.

>
> You haven't told us yet if you're on Tiger or on Leopard. But 
> sounds like it is Tiger then because the PDFAnnotationLine header 
> for Leopard lists:
>
> #if MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED >= MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_5
>
> // Fill color used for drawing ornaments at end and start of lines 
> (optional, PDF 1.4).
> - (NSColor *) interiorColor;
> - (void) setInteriorColor: (NSColor *) color;
>
> #endif    // MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED >= MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_5
>
> And everything works as advertised on my end, whether squares, 
> lines or other forms of annotations I have been using.
>
> Cheers,
> António
>
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