Re: [ilugd] freedom pdf readers

2009-03-17 Thread Mani A
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Smruti smrutiman...@gmail.com But PDF is a widely used format for document publishing. If we bring another format into the public domain we will also be requiring a huge awareness campaign for this. I understand playing catch up might be

Re: [ilugd] freedom pdf readers

2009-03-17 Thread Smruti
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Mani A a.mani@gmail.com wrote: That should not be a problem, provided they are free and open. DJVU is a very advanced format with over twenty years of evolution. See http://djvu.org/resources/ ... it has plenty of advantages over pdf. Well, if that is

Re: [ilugd] freedom pdf readers

2009-03-16 Thread Mayank
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:54 PM, rakesh kumar kumar3...@gmail.com wrote: Hey its a great news that format viewer both are under GNU GPL. On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: DjVu (http://djvu.sourceforge.net/), both the format and the viewer, are under

Re: [ilugd] freedom pdf readers

2009-03-16 Thread Raj Mathur
On Tuesday 17 Mar 2009, Mayank wrote: Can someone please explain it to me as to what is difference between a document format being an Open Standard vs. a document format licensed under GPL ? An open standard is one whose complete specification has been published. It helps (but is not

Re: [ilugd] freedom pdf readers

2009-03-15 Thread rakesh kumar
Hey its a great news that format viewer both are under GNU GPL. On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: dear all, hopefully, someone will soon realize the huge gaps to cover for a

Re: [ilugd] freedom pdf readers

2009-03-12 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: dear all, hopefully, someone will soon realize the huge gaps to cover for a full drop-in replacement. http://pdfreaders.org/ DjVu (http://djvu.sourceforge.net/), both the format and the viewer, are under GNU GPL. And

[ilugd] freedom pdf readers

2009-03-11 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, hopefully, someone will soon realize the huge gaps to cover for a full drop-in replacement. http://pdfreaders.org/ regards niyam -- niyam bhushan ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org