On Feb 13, 2010, at 18:05, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > 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.
And let me add: the core of the interface IS PDFKit (PDFView to be precise). So you're wrong here. Christiaan > > 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
