Hi MJ Ray,
* MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop [2008-12-13 16:28:06 +0000]:
Hi. I'm getting "your message has been held for moderation" replies when emailing feedback@pdfreaders.org - I suggest switching them off, to avoid spam blowback.
Done, thanks.
Matthias Kirschner mk@fsfe.org wrote:
Oh thanks, haven't heard about that one.
I was not able to use it after a short try. Do I have to use GNUstep? (I tried to open a pdf with yap filename.pdf.) Do you have a guess what I am doing wrong?
Well, you need GNUstep libraries installed. The easiest way to use it is to double-click a PDF file in GWorkspace, or start Yap and drag and drop a PDF onto its appicon. I think "openapp Yap -GSFile filename.pdf" will start it from the shell. It does work well: it's essentially loading anti-aliased images generated by Ghostscript into a simple GNUstep browser window. Simple and fairly fast.
Ok, Stian / Henner we should add Yap than.
Another viewer for Microsoft Windows is GSView http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/index.htm but I'm told Sumatra PDF is usually better.
IIRC it was once under the non-free "Aladdin Free Public License". But I heard this has changed. Henner wants to check this. I don't yet know if we should list software which we ourself are not able to install...
We have the SVGs at http://wiki.fsfe.org/Free-PDF-Readers-Campaign/Logo. After the feedback round we will include a link to the source from http://www.pdfreaders.org/graphics.html.
That's great, but I'm not sure whether I have a working SVG editor at present and I suspect other webmasters periodically break theirs too, so high-res PNG components will help popularity too. At least graphics to replace http://www.publications.doh.gov.uk/cno/pdf.gif (the "PDF and A" logo) and http://iswc2006.semanticweb.org/items/pdf.jpg (the "PDF A page") would be very helpful in getting a quick response from webmasters.
Would it be ok, to have them in the resolutions we use for our sponsoring buttons? http://www.fsfeurope.org/about/graphics/sponsoring/sponsoring.en.html? If not, can you please provide in which resolutions it should be available?
Which license do you suggest for the buttons?
We're trying to overthrow a very dominant proprietary provider, so I'd suggest as liberal and simple as possible - maybe WTFPL or Expat-like.
So would this be ok?
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation Europe
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long as the name is changed.
Than we will talk with the designer and license the graphics under that license.
Can you inform us when you link to pdfreaders.org? Or when you have convienced government bodies, universities, etc. to link to us?
I'll try to remember, but you may find it more reliable to watch your referrer logs. Sometimes even if I have an effect, people don't tell me and the first I know is seeing inbound links.
Ok, we will do so.
Best wishes, Matthias