Re: A Round of Removals
- To: Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de>
- Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: A Round of Removals
- From: tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
- Date: 31 Oct 2002 13:20:09 -0800
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Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> writes:
> On 27 Oct 2002 08:05:08 -0800, tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
> wrote:
> >Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> writes:
> >> As far as I know there is not yet a free pdf reader available that can
> >> do all features of the latest acrobad specification. Giving the
> >> history with adobe, there is no doubt that all adobe-written pdf
> >> generators will soon use exactly these features.
> >
> >Of course not! Some of the features are horrid things we should never
> >have, like unprintable documents and un-cut-and-past-able documents.
>
> As long as the free pdf readers can display unprintable documents, I
> don't care if I can print them or not. But if I can't view them
> because they're unprintable, I need the original acroread.
By "we shouldn't implement unprintable documents" I mean that we
should certainly make them viewable *and* printable, and not implement
the stupid restriction.
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