Dear Julius,
I just stumbled over your pdf reader for iOS [1]! We, the Free Software Foundation Europe are hosting a site with links to Free Software alternatives to commonly used non-free pdf readers. [2] In addition we have had a very succesfull campaign in removing advertisements to proprietary pdf readers and/or adding references to Free Software pdf readers [3].
We are currently working on an update to the site, and we want to include readers for mobile platforms as well. Now my main question is: * Is your pdf reader free as in freedom? * Does that include the rendering component (the part for actually rendering PDF)?
If yes, we'd love to include your reader!
Thanks for your time and for developing Free Software, of course!
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Dear all,
On 05/20/2012 05:03 PM, Hannes Hauswedell wrote:
We are currently working on an update to the site, and we want to include readers for mobile platforms as well.
I would love to see free pdf-"writers" on the site. What I mean, are pdfreading programs that are able to
+ edit pdfs (delete pages, rearrange page order, merge different pdfs ...)
+ highlight text inside pdfs and write comments in pdfs (you can use zotero for that but thats uncomfortable in many occasions)
Best regards, Erik
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Hi Erik
please do not reply to an "external" mail, as that confuses me (and possibly others), thanks! There will be more info (and possibility to reply and suggest changes) about PDFReaders.org 2.0 soon.
On 05/20/2012 05:03 PM, Hannes Hauswedell wrote:
We are currently working on an update to the site, and we want to include readers for mobile platforms as well.
I would love to see free pdf-"writers" on the site. What I mean, are pdfreading programs that are able to
edit pdfs (delete pages, rearrange page order, merge different pdfs ...)
highlight text inside pdfs and write comments in pdfs (you can use
zotero for that but thats uncomfortable in many occasions)
Some people have asked for this, but right now it is unlikely. The points brought up previously include: * difficult to assess features (what features would be required, which not?) * difficult to maintain the list, once we have agreed on features (because features change more quickly) * the project is called pdfREADERS, we would have to change a lot of the campain to include pdf-writers, -editors, -annotators... => too much work right now.
Hi Erik
please do not reply to an "external" mail, as that confuses me (and possibly others), thanks! There will be more info (and possibility to reply and suggest changes) about PDFReaders.org 2.0 soon.
On 05/20/2012 05:03 PM, Hannes Hauswedell wrote:
We are currently working on an update to the site, and we want to include readers for mobile platforms as well.
I would love to see free pdf-"writers" on the site. What I mean, are pdfreading programs that are able to
edit pdfs (delete pages, rearrange page order, merge different pdfs ...)
highlight text inside pdfs and write comments in pdfs (you can use
zotero for that but thats uncomfortable in many occasions)
Some people have asked for this, but right now it is unlikely. The points brought up previously include: * difficult to assess features (what features would be required, which not?) * difficult to maintain the list, once we have agreed on features (because features change more quickly) * the project is called pdfREADERS, we would have to change a lot of the campain to include pdf-writers, -editors, -annotators... => too much work right now.
Hi Erik
please do not reply to an "external" mail, as that confuses me (and possibly others), thanks! There will be more info (and possibility to reply and suggest changes) about PDFReaders.org 2.0 soon.
On 05/20/2012 05:03 PM, Hannes Hauswedell wrote:
We are currently working on an update to the site, and we want to include readers for mobile platforms as well.
I would love to see free pdf-"writers" on the site. What I mean, are pdfreading programs that are able to
edit pdfs (delete pages, rearrange page order, merge different pdfs ...)
highlight text inside pdfs and write comments in pdfs (you can use
zotero for that but thats uncomfortable in many occasions)
Some people have asked for this, but right now it is unlikely. The points brought up previously include: * difficult to assess features (what features would be required, which not?) * difficult to maintain the list, once we have agreed on features (because features change more quickly) * the project is called pdfREADERS, we would have to change a lot of the campain to include pdf-writers, -editors, -annotators... => too much work right now.