> I've been using the itextPDF mechanism Christopher describes below, > and it's far more convenient than the other alternatives if you > are going to use the PDF in Latex. ?The reason it is more convenient > is that it exports the PDF on a correctly sized page. ?With the printing > mechanisms you get it on an 8.5x11 (or A4) page, or you have to manually > set the page size, which is a royal pain... > > Too bad that code is AGPL'd. If it weren't, we could just include > it with Ptolemy II. ?But AGPL is not truly "free software." > It is encumbered quasi-free software...
Huh? iText is released under the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE v3: http://itextpdf.com/terms-of-use/index.php?page=AGPL Do you really consider projects released under the GPL or AGPL quasi-free software? http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/licenses.html These two licenses at least force you to provide the source-code as well, when you're making the project publicly available. In contrast to BSD licenses which quite often result in closed-source software (e.g., Mac OSX uses FreeBSD and NetBSD code). Don't wanna start a flame war, just my 2c on this topic... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
