On Feb 13, 2010, at 8:02 AM, thecolourblue wrote: > The issue has been brought up several times before, so there is clearly an > expressed demand for it, and given the poor state of djvu readers on the mac, > I suspect a large amount of unexpressed support. I think the reasons for > rejecting the idea out of hand are not well justified, which is why I brought > it up again.
Then why hasn't anyone forked Skim and added support for it? [...] > This is nothing like asking Skim to support lots of different file types like > office .docx documents or photoshop .psd's- but more like its existing > support for dvi files (which it simply converts to pdf). Which arguably shouldn't have been added in the first place, especially since it depends on non-system utilities :). If this is what you want, can you convert these djvu files to PDF? > The technical arguments are more of an issue since Skim gets its pdf support > for free from PDFKit, and no such support is currently available for djvu > files. However, there are gpl libraries available for reading and displaying > djvu files and if they could be coaxed into a framework which provided > something like the functionality of PDFKit, then surely including support in > Skim would be a very simple job? GPL code cannot be included in Skim. LGPL libraries could be linked. > There would be no need for extra functionality in the existing Skim code- no > interface changes for example. People requesting a feature invariably claim that it's trivial, but aren't willing to attempt it themselves. You don't have to ask permission to use Skim's codebase; pull the source or con someone else into doing it, and start hacking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
