On 12/24/08 12:57 PM, Luiz Augusto wrote: > What is the current status of Extension:Pdfhandler and bugzilla:11215? It > needs more testing or it will never get enabled due to Adobe patents? How > can geeks and non-geeks wikimedians can help on debugging that extension?
AFAIK there's no patent/openness issues at stake as long as encrypted PDFs aren't being used... > I'm asking it because I've approximately 30GB of public domain scans in .pdf > format to upload on Commons on the next months (see > http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=928004#Royal_Society_Digital_Archive_only_for_3_Months_FREEfor > further information on it) and because I fully agree to the reasons > listed on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11215#c3 It seemed to work ok the last time I tested it and did some tweaks... Before a live test deployment, the software dependencies will need to be installed, which should be pretty straightforward. > [Yeah, I'm asking it in the Christmas day... Extension:Pdfhandler and > Extension:ABC are good options of christmas gifts for Wikisource wikis ;-) ] :) -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
