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