On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Ira Abramov wrote: > > > Both are proprietary though (Ask Sklyarov). > > > > Skylarov was arrested for circumventing the Adobe eBook format, which is a > proprietary and undocumented way of scrambling a PDF. Otherwise, PDF is > fully documented, and a full documentation for it is available on the > Adobe site. Whether it makes it proprietary or not, is left for the > interpretation of the beholder. >
Here are the complete PDF specs from Adobe: http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/technotes/acrobatpdf.html Knock yourself out! Regards, Shlomi Fish > > > > > I disagree. Unless PDF comes by default on windows nowday, installing > > > a postscript viewer should be no more and no less complicated than > > > installing a PDF viewer. > > > > well, due to a very good marketing campaign, many people recognize the > > .pdf extension, almost as many as those who recognize .html. however .ps > > is rarely recognized outside the Unix/Mac user domain. It may be easy to > > install, if people knew about it. > > > > Agreed > > > And shlofmi said: > > > > [1] http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/ > > > Interesting link, which I completely don't agree with.If I can get > > > the software I write to run on Windows and other non-UNIX platforms > > > without too much overhead, I willtry to do so.While the latest > > > version of Quad-Pres can only run on UNIX (partly becauseI'm using > > > WML), I believe all my other software is compatible with Windows. > > > > I Agree in full. > > Felix has a twisted view on what software freedom is (it seems like a > > lot of his page is full of DJB's stuff. While I agree it's great > > software, it's not free, and I ache for a GPL replacement) > > > > Asking for people not to port software to windows is rediculous. I see > > the idea of porting Free Software everywhere as the best thing to do. > > you flood windows users with a Free environment, they will get used to > > it, and finally switching the kernel will not be fealt. BillG will call > > us Viral for saying that, but it's the Utopia I dream of :) > > > > Agreed again. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > > > -- > > Big fish in a small pond > > Ira Abramov > > > > http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. > > Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal. > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ > > There's no point in keeping an idea to yourself since there's a 10 to 1 > chance that somebody already has it and will share it before you. > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ There's no point in keeping an idea to yourself since there's a 10 to 1 chance that somebody already has it and will share it before you. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
