pdfreaders February 2009

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Fwd: Re: Policy for including readers on pdfreaders.org
by Stian Rødven Eide 22 Feb '09

22 Feb '09

Another comment of interest. I think Bernhard has a good point. From Bernhard Reiter, 2009-02-20: > Am Freitag, 20. Februar 2009 07:54:49 schrieb Stian Rødven Eide: > > > 2. The reader should be under development (with the latest commit being > > > within the last 1.5 years) > > Note that usually this is a bad criteria, there is really cool software > without commits in the last 1.5 years. I would make it "maintained" without > being too specific.

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TODO Change PDF symbol on Wikipedia
by HennR 22 Feb '09

22 Feb '09

Hi *, I just browsed wikipedia, and look what I have found: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDL_(programming_language)#Problems they are using a dirty PDF symbol ;) I would say that we should try them to replace their logo with one of our small logos that the readers (file browsers) should also use. What do you think? Greetings HennR

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Mozilla
by HennR 22 Feb '09

22 Feb '09

Hey, have we already answer the mail from the mozilla guy? Just crossed my mind. Greetings Henner

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why not Ghostscript?
by Dave Love 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '09

Shouldn't the list of PDF readers include Ghostscript plus GV? I've found that often gives -- or, at least, used to -- better results for some types of document than xpdf, although it doesn't interpret hyperlinks.

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Re: Policy for including readers on pdfreaders.org
by Stian Rødven Eide 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

From Cristian Rigamonti, 2009-02-13: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 02:25:50PM +0100, Stian Rødven Eide wrote: > > WHAT: > > Deciding upon criteria for adding readers to PDFreaders.org > > BTW, since in the pdfreaders homepage we mention programs to read and > _write_ PDF, I was wondering if we have plans to provide a similar table > for free pdf writers, even if the campaign (and the domain name :) is about > readers. > > This came to my mind because a long time ago I heard a friend of mine > complaining about the lack of free (as in free beer) programs to create PDF > in windows (he would have to set up a "virtual pdf printer" or something > like that). > > I don't know if things improved and it makes sense at all to have a list of > free writers too, have you ever talked about this on the pdfreaders mailing > list? (feel free to forward this message if you think it's useful). I think it has been briefly mentioned following a previous suggestion, and I believe it is generally a good idea to make a page similar to what you describe, which would be very helpful to the community. I'm not too sure whether pdfreaders.org would be the right place, although it could be, and due to much confusion on the PDF format itself I don't think the time is right yet either. I am presently working on a page that aims to describe to which extent PDF is an Open Standard, and when that is finished, we will have a much better foundation for actually knowing which PDF writers to recommend as well. /Stian

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Direct link to sumtra.exe
by HennR 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

Hi guys, I wrote the author of sumatra and he wishes that we link to his downloadpage instead of the .exe directly. I wrote him that we will of course respect that wish. So long, HennR

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Norwegian spelling error
by Gard Spreemann 14 Feb '09

14 Feb '09

Hi. I'd like to notify you that there seems to be a tiny spelling mistake in the Norwegian page ("Norsk (bokmål)", index.nb.html). The word "foretningshemmeligheter" should be spelt with two r's, i.e. "forretningshemmeligheter" [1]. Let me also thank you for the great initiative pdfreaders.org is. I will be making my best effort to notify sites I use that link to Adobe for a "free" PDF reader of your site. [1] http://www.dokpro.uio.no/perl/ordboksoek/ordbok.cgi?OPP=forretningshemmelig… -- Gard Spreemann <spreeman (at) stud.ntnu.no> <gspreemann (at) gmail.com> <http://folk.ntnu.no/spreeman>

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Epdfview
by Jeremy Henty 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

You may be interested in Epdfview[1], a lightweight PDF viewer based on Poppler and GTK. I use it all the time on my GNU/Linux system. It does not depend on Gnome or KDE, in contrast to most of the other GNU programs on your list. Please consider adding it to your list. Regards, Jeremy Henty [1] http://trac.emma-soft.com/epdfview/

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Re: pdfreaders subversion repo (Was: Re: The SRE Report, Week 04)
by Stian Rødven Eide 12 Feb '09

12 Feb '09

From Cristian Rigamonti, 2009-02-11: > > I've fixed the errors and will upload the well-working source files after > > making a few changes to the content. > > Great. Let me know when you commit the new sources and I'll enable the > automatic build script. I've now commited what should be an error-free template, as well as an update to config.yaml and every index.*.page. Please commence with the automatisation. /Stian

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12 Feb '09

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