pdfreaders June 2011

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NIST is recommending non-free software
by Daniel Molina 31 Oct '11

31 Oct '11

Hi, I am a Physics student and I've discovered a very important site for all Physics' and scientist comunity, the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)[1], which is recommending not only Acrobat Reader, but a lot of more non-free programs[2]. I've though seriously to notice the webmaster by myself, but I don't know free replaces for all the programs that they are recommending (7!), my english is not very good and also you have a more impressive sign than me. Please, I ask you that you write to the webmaster (her email is on the bottom of [2] web-page) with all the help that she could need for the migration. Feel free to contact me about that issue or to ask for collaboration. I'd do it by myself, but I think you'll do it better than me this time. Regards, Daniel [1] http://www.nist.gov/pml/index.cfm [2] http://www.nist.gov/pml/viewer.cfm

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Green background
by Guido Günther 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Hi, I just noticed that the text A green background indicates that the reader is recommended for your operating system. The recommendations are based on ease of use and install and do not reflect the technical merits of the software itself. should not be displayed when JavaScript is disabled since otherwise one looks for a recommendation that is not displayed. This could be done by putting the above text into a div with "display:none" that is set to block once the JS to select the CSS runs. Cheers, -- Guido

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To the attention of Hannes Hauswedell and of Jan Hendrik Peters: Report on some more Greek Public administration webpages with proprietary PDF readers
by Kostas Mousafiris 18 Jul '11

18 Jul '11

Dear Hannes Hauswedell and Jan-Hendrik Peters, after a little more web browsing in Greek public Organizations sites, I came to discover some more referrals to the proprietary PDF readers. I would therefore like to present them succinctly here to you, so that it will possible to send them a first exploratory/ informational e-mail : 1) Web page of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in its section: "Software Library", where it includes EXCLUSIVELY various proprietary apps, like Adobe Acrobat Reader, Macromedia Flash Player, MS Word viewer, MS Excel viewer, MS Power point viewer, etc) http://www.mfa.gr/www.mfa.gr/en-US/Services/Disclaimer/ 2) Web page of the Greek Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Islands and Fisheries (in its section: "Utilities/ Basic advice") http://www.yen.gr/wide/yen.chtm?prnbr=36087 3) Web page of the Greek National Printing site (in the section "Useful instructions") http://www.et.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=119… <http://www.et.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=70&Itemid=119…> Thanks for your attention Many friendly regards Constantine Mousafiris FSFE Fellow username: kosmous

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Contacto Laboral
by Mauro Stone - Diseñador grafico y Webmaster 18 Jul '11

18 Jul '11

Hola, ¿Que tal? le escribo para ofrecer mis servicios como Diseñador Grafico y Webmaster, me dedico a Sitios web y Grafica en general como Packaging, edicion de fotos con photoshop, Folletos, Libros, Etc. Tengo experiencia y muchos clientes en todos tipo de trabajos, especialmente sitios web, no dudes en comunicarte! Un saludo y estoy a la espera de una respuesta favorable para ponernos en contacto. Mis Datos de contacto son: www.arteyweb.com.ar +54 9 11 6308-5118

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PDF Reader campaign - buglist update
by Michael Rauch 18 Jul '11

18 Jul '11

link to adobe download has been removed: http://www.oensingen.ch/de/toolbar/impressum/ cheers, michael

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Looking for a pdfreader, i met:
by Hans van Zuilen 15 Jul '11

15 Jul '11

Some strange things, Busy looking for a washer manual (...) came out to be only PDF , no txt, and avoiding Adobe as a software Seems a hassle to find alternatives. Which blocks are thrown on searchmachines to have free finds of good software? Why cannot u finf easier the right PDFware? Or converter to set a PDF to a safer format? Example: Find the manual for the Asko laundry type nmbr 16004. Some 2 hours on i managed it to download a found "usermanual"/"handleiding". In PDF format , 1 Mb. Dev: android 1.6 Found in Opera Mini brwsr, downloaded, probably cloudscanned against malware but Google is a bad communicator (no report) Have no reader for Android, tried sending to relate for using his Adobe reader, failed some 10 tries! Tried downloading on HIS pc: PDF-doc was unretrievable.. unknown why. Met vriendelijke groet, Hans v Zuilen. ------> Alle ware leven is ontmoeten <(M Buber)------ ENS wel eens gezien? http://emetnews.org/ ('emet'='de waarheid') of http://twitter.com/EmetNews

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missing PDF reader in your list
by Davide Del Vento 14 Jul '11

14 Jul '11

I think http://impressive.sourceforge.net/ should be listed here http://pdfreaders.org/index.en.html It's a great PDF reader (and more) Regards, Davide Del Vento, NCAR Computational & Information Services Laboratory Consulting Services Software Engineer http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/hss/csg/ SEA Chair http://sea.ucar.edu/ office: Mesa Lab, Room 55G phone: (303) 497-1233 mobile: (303) 720-6338

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PDFreaders Follow-up France + Russia
by Matthias Kirschner 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

Hello Natasha, Hello Nico, I would like you two to follow-up on the PDFreaders bugs for France and Russia (you can choose who wants which country ;) ). http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.en.html#RU http://fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.en.html#FR While doing that, please also report success on FSFE's identi.ca user with reference to the campaign, sometimes the follow-up guide, the buglist, the petition etc. Use the hashtag #pdfreaders. Try to encourage others to do the same for their countries. Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - Fellowship Coordinator, German Coordinator Free Software Foundation Europe (fsfe.org) Free Software is important to you? Join today! (fsfe.org/join)

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Follow-up on jabber chat - possible action item
by Matthias Kirschner 12 Jul '11

12 Jul '11

Hi Ivan, was good to speak with you again. As promised here a short proposal for an activity you can do in Serbia during those dark days until next year. It is about http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/. I would propose to ask people in Serbia to translate the following pages into Serbian: - http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/pdfreaders.en.html - http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/letter.en.html - http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/petition.en.html While doing that others can already look for commercials on Serbian public institution's websites. E.g. by using "site:government.xy acrobat reader" for differnt pages. It will be a problem to open the official bug list <http://www.fsfe.org/campaigns/pdfreaders/buglist.en.html> again, but you can just use the same format. @Nico: Can you sent Ivan an example of how the generated files look like, so he can send you a file with all the institutions and we can provide him the PDFs? Other option is to just send it by e-mail in the beginning and just send those a letter who do not react on e-mails. - Blog and Microblog, about your activity. - Follow-up with the public institutions, often they ask questions about Free Software in general or Open Standards. If I can help you, please let me know. All the best, Matthias -- Matthias Kirschner - Fellowship Coordinator, German Coordinator Free Software Foundation Europe (fsfe.org) Free Software is important to you? Join today! (fsfe.org/join)

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of the success of the pdfreaders campaign
by Nicolas JEAN 10 Jul '11

10 Jul '11

Hi all, Here attached is the answer we got from the French prime minister's office last December, following the letter we sent with regards to the PDFReaders campaign. For non-French speakers, it basically consists of three paragraphs: - "We received your letter telling us that we mention only Acrobat Reader" - "But as you say, other software can as well be used to read PDF files" - "I'm honored to inform you that we will remove the mentions raising your concern ASAP" And so they did. I only checked yesterday again (they had not removed effectively the advertising when we received the letter at first), and they now just say: "all of our document are in the PDF file format" As of my check, 25% of the 122 French institutions have now found a solution to comply with our demand. If you wish to *help*, please get in touch with me or on france@ to help contact back the institutions. Our next step is to find the email addresses with which we can write to them. Then we'll send an /fat thank email/ to the institutions that removed the ad, and a reminder to the others. Cheers, Nico [not signed so that you can detach the attachment if necessary] -- Nicolas JEAN - Intern, Web coordinator Free Software Foundation Europe (http://fsfe.org) Is Free Software important to you? Join us! (http://fsfe.org/join)

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