Cher Laurent, dear Larry ,
dear list members,

j'ai finis le premier beta de "pdfIdentifier 68k"!
(I've finished the first beta of "pdfIdentifier 68k"!)

"pdfIdentifier 68k" is an application that makes non-Macintosh
pdf-documents recognizable for Macintosh "Acrobat™ Reader". This may be
helpful for those of us who download pdf-documents from the web that --
when double-clicked -- do not open "Acrobat™ Reader". Actually, most of
the downloaded pdf-documents don't have the appropriate creator and type
signatures.

To identify such pdf-documents, i.e. to give them the correct creator
and type signatures, you simply have to drop the documents or folders
(even nested ones) onto the icon of "pdfIdentifier 68k". Because
"pdfIdentifier 68k" looks for the pdf-header in any dropped file it will
ignore all non-pdf files and applications!

Since Larry prefers small 68k applications I realized a lean application
by using FB^3 and a modified version of the Rntm UltraLite.Incl. (Sorry,
but I didn't use the DropShell of Heather D.) The present and fully
functional beta _without_ any Menus, Error Handling, About Dialog and
Balloon Info is only
----> 11441 bytes.
Is this small enough?

"pdfIdentifier 68k" also runs nicely on my PowerMac under OS 8.6.

May be, some time I shall produce a more corpulent PPC version with more
features...

I shall send a copy of "pdfIdentifier 68k" to Larry and he is to decide
whether he will put it on his web site.

Best to all of you and good tunnelling into a pleasant year 2001

Herbie
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