Hi there, Hamish & Co.
On Jul 29 2009, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:13:39PM -1000, Ryo Furue wrote:
> > Hi Moritz,
> >
> > | xpdf is a dead end.
> > |
> > I'm sorry to hear that. (No, it's not possible
> > for me to take care of the package, unfortunately.)
>
> That's Moritz's observation/opinion rather than Xpdf's author's.
> It's certainly a long time between releases though.
I sincerely hope that xpdf is not dead, as the tookits used with other
viewers make things hugely impractical for the very same purpose that
Ryo states.
I also frequently need to log into a remote computer to see PDF
files---and such files can only be viewed on a remote computer, due to
policies of publishers of scientific papers tying the access to an IP
subnet.
And when I am not a the University and have to read a given reference,
my only option is to log in remotely. Also, the current "modern"
solutions based on poppler seem to have drawbacks (I'm thinking
particularly of evince, which uses cairo and, according to some bugs
upstream, can't use a zoom factor greater than 400% for performance
issues).
I am willing to lend a hand on xpdf, since it is so important for many
users and applications. Team-maintaining it would be best.
Auditing the patches from poppler and seeing if they are relevant to
xpdf would be a good thing, even if xpdf goes into "maintenance mode"
only.
Regards, Rogério Brito.
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