Re: Proposal - non-free software removal
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 10:53:33AM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> > >> >> xpdf-japanese
> > >> >> cmap-adobe-japan1
> > >> >> cmap-adobe-japan2
> > >> >> cmap-adobe-korea1
> > >> >> cmap-adobe-gb1
> > >> >> cmap-adobe-cns1
>
[...]
> In fact, cmap-adobe-* and xpdf-japanese/korean/chinese-*
> are same kind of files so I believe they could be collected
> to one package (per japanese/korean/chinese) to be used both
> xpdf and ghostscript.
>
> And Hamish Moffatt is now working to try to do so, I guess.
That's correct. I am hoping that if all of the cmap files can be
combined into the cmap-* packages, xpdf-japanese etc could move intro
contrib. However that doesn't really buy us much because it would still
require non-free software to work.
> (Perhaps dvipdfm-cjk-cmap is also the same kind of package
> as far as I understand)
Yes I believe it is.
Hamish
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