Hi, I just learnt about the website on Linuxfr.org http://linuxfr.org/2009/02/04/24972.html, congrats for this interesting initiative.
I'd thought I'd let you know about BePDF as well. BePDF is an xpdf based PDF reader for BeOS and Haiku with a native GUI (xpdf is used for rendering, but BeOS & Haiku don't use X11).
BeOS was a proprietary OS, but Haiku is a MIT-licenced clone, see < http://haiku-os.org%3E.
BePDF: http://bebits.com/app/1438 Sources are available here: http://bepdf.sourceforge.net/
We also have a PDF writer driver built into Haiku, which has also been made available to BeOS http://bebits.com/app/2494. The sources are available in Haiku's svn: http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/print/drivers/pdf
While I'm at it, the NetSurf web browser http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ (started on RiscOS, now also supports Linux with GTK, AmigaOS and BeOS/ Haiku) has direct PDF export of web pages using libHaru http://libharu.org/.
Cheers, François.
This is an interesting point I think. Should we perhaps add BePDF to the "Free OS's" column? While having BeOS as a separate column might bring added confusion, adding the reader to the Free OS's' will probably not bother anyone, especially since Free OS users will either use their package manager or be able to build their own software (and thus understand what BePDF is) anyway.
/Stian
On Thursday 05 February 2009 01:22:32 François Revol wrote:
Hi, I just learnt about the website on Linuxfr.org http://linuxfr.org/2009/02/04/24972.html, congrats for this interesting initiative.
I'd thought I'd let you know about BePDF as well. BePDF is an xpdf based PDF reader for BeOS and Haiku with a native GUI (xpdf is used for rendering, but BeOS & Haiku don't use X11).
BeOS was a proprietary OS, but Haiku is a MIT-licenced clone, see < http://haiku-os.org%3E.
BePDF: http://bebits.com/app/1438 Sources are available here: http://bepdf.sourceforge.net/
We also have a PDF writer driver built into Haiku, which has also been made available to BeOS http://bebits.com/app/2494. The sources are available in Haiku's svn: http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/src/add-ons/print/drivers/pdf
While I'm at it, the NetSurf web browser http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ (started on RiscOS, now also supports Linux with GTK, AmigaOS and BeOS/ Haiku) has direct PDF export of web pages using libHaru http://libharu.org/.
Cheers, François. _______________________________________________ Pdfreaders mailing list Pdfreaders@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/pdfreaders
* Stian Rødven Eide stian@julipan.org [2009-02-06 14:44:05 +0100]:
This is an interesting point I think. Should we perhaps add BePDF to the "Free OS's" column? While having BeOS as a separate column might bring added confusion, adding the reader to the Free OS's' will probably not bother anyone, especially since Free OS users will either use their package manager or be able to build their own software (and thus understand what BePDF is) anyway.
Think we add it for Heiku (MIT clone he mentioned) in the Free OS part and ignore BeOS. Can anyone check if Heiku is licensed under MIT before adding?
Best wishes, Matthias
From Matthias Kirschner, 2009-02-06:
- Stian Rødven Eide stian@julipan.org [2009-02-06 14:44:05 +0100]:
This is an interesting point I think. Should we perhaps add BePDF to the "Free OS's" column? While having BeOS as a separate column might bring added confusion, adding the reader to the Free OS's' will probably not bother anyone, especially since Free OS users will either use their package manager or be able to build their own software (and thus understand what BePDF is) anyway.
Think we add it for Heiku (MIT clone he mentioned) in the Free OS part and ignore BeOS. Can anyone check if Heiku is licensed under MIT before adding?
Confirmed: http://www.haiku-os.org/about/faq#9
I'll add it.
/Stian