On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Hannes Hauswedell
<h2@fsfe.org> wrote:
Hi there!
First of all, thank you for your interest in the PDFReaders-Campaign.
On Wednesday 13 October 2010 11:00:06 willie thepimp wrote:
> Hi!
>
> About your list of open PDF readers for mac:
> MuPDF isn't available for Mac OS X.
> Vindaloo hasn't been touched by it's author in the past 5 years, and
> the binarie that he offer on his website is only a ppc version.
We are aware of the situation on OSX and are working with Free Software
developers to improve the availability of technically superior
pdfreaders on the Mac-Platform.
Ok, but right now there is no version of MuPDF for Mac OS, so why providing a link to it?
Vindaloo's binaries are 5 years old, the library it use to render the PDF has been patched many times in 5 years[1], running this binaries is not secure. Also, it's compiled only for the ppc platform, people running the latest version of OS X, won't be able to run it, people running slightly older version of OS X on an intel machine will have it running inside and emulator, the application will be slow to start, and i'm afraid it might give a bad impression about free software.
Xpdf require X!
Why not linking to Skim[2], which is a **native** PDF viewer for OSX, under a BSD license, and having some advantages over the default app?
Cheers,
peter.