My PAR/FUSE/PDF talk
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chrisdolan
Date: 12/20/2007 7:59 pm
Date: 12/20/2007 7:59 pm
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Last week I presented a fun topic to the Madmongers group: I created
a user-mode filesystem that treats PDF files as disk images, and I
packaged it with PAR. As a demonstration, I wrote a quick-and-dirty
Mac GUI front end. It probably works only on 10.4 (I didn't test
10.5) and isn't as powerful as the Fuse-PDF command line, but it's
more accessible.
The attendees had a huge number of very good questions and I had a
great time. Thanks everyone!
If you feel inspired to try the application, please let me know
(either on the list or off) how it worked for you. Be aware that you
must install the MacFUSE kernel extension before it will work. In
principle, the Fuse-PDF code should work on Linux and BSD too, with
the analogous kernel hooks, but I have not tested those systems.
http://www.chrisdolan.net/madmongers/par-fuse-pdf.html
http://www.chrisdolan.net/Fuse-PDF/Fuse-PDF-App.dmg
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Fuse-PDF/
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
Chris
a user-mode filesystem that treats PDF files as disk images, and I
packaged it with PAR. As a demonstration, I wrote a quick-and-dirty
Mac GUI front end. It probably works only on 10.4 (I didn't test
10.5) and isn't as powerful as the Fuse-PDF command line, but it's
more accessible.
The attendees had a huge number of very good questions and I had a
great time. Thanks everyone!
If you feel inspired to try the application, please let me know
(either on the list or off) how it worked for you. Be aware that you
must install the MacFUSE kernel extension before it will work. In
principle, the Fuse-PDF code should work on Linux and BSD too, with
the analogous kernel hooks, but I have not tested those systems.
http://www.chrisdolan.net/madmongers/par-fuse-pdf.html
http://www.chrisdolan.net/Fuse-PDF/Fuse-PDF-App.dmg
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Fuse-PDF/
http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
Chris