Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:10, Norbert Preining wrote: > > > >> I already wanted to upload the package to CTAN when I realized that > >> back then we had a problem with whether or not we are allowed to > >> distribute original PDF documentation. Martin Vogel replied to me > >> with: > > > > ... > > > >> So my question before uploading a fixed version is: based on his > >> reply, am I allowed to add his original PDF documentation to the > >> package? > > > > INAL but I would say yes, of course, it is very clear. But keep in mind, > > is there also the source code of the pdf? > > Uncompressed PDF is just a text file, isn't it?
maybe; but it still has pointers which mean that editing involves replacing text without changing the text's length. it's not normally considered a sane thing to do. > You can also easily > use any tool like InDesign to modify it if hand-editing PDF file by > hand sounds too complicated ;) who's "you"? i've never even seen a copy of indesign; arguing from that to saying that you don't need source in tl ... is a non-starter. > The document has been created with some ancient version of Star Office > (that's probably a predecessor of OpenOffice/LibreOffice, so there is > even a slight chance that it could be opened :). That source document > is not part of the zip, but even if it was it would probably be almost > useless since even if one would be able to open it, it would be a bit > difficult to convince Office to use the right version of font and the > right glyphs. (It would probably work after some time, but it would be > a nontrivial task.) > > In principle it is trivial to reproduce the document (or even to just > copy-paste from PDF to Writer and fix some problems; or maybe > replicate the document in TeX), but I see no compelling reason to do > so. It is just work (trivial work) that takes time and doesn't bring > any benefit apart from being able to say that "we have the source now" > and resulting in a document just a tiny bit different from author's > original. Using common-sense, replicating the document is a less > friendly gesture towards the author than simply including the original > PDF. If anyone feels a need to do whatever changes in the document, > (s)he can always do that when the need arises. fine. we can hold the pdf on ctan, but tl won't take anything for which there is no source. > The document contains 12 pages of a table with > (graphical symbol, character number, latin1 character to type, > PostScript name, German description, English description) > plus Author's contact information and some tiny examples at the end. it is indeed going to be a joy to reproduce the document in tex. robin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
