PDF documentation.
Le Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:02:43PM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
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> On the other hand I prefer the pragmatic approach: The user deserves
> documentation and if a PDF is there without source it is like an
> image that can be changed with an image manipulation program. We
> now have programs that can edit PDF (or at least turn PDF into
> ASCII and reformat). So considering a PDF as binary without
> source is not really helpful.
Hi Andreas,
I really completely agree. We currently have one package completely ready,
velvet, which rots in our SVN because I am unwilling to do the stupid work of
repackaging it without its PDF documentation (which includes having to do some
blahblah in debian/copyright, write a README.source and a get-orig-source
target in debian/rules). Shall we try our luck in the NEW queue and argue that
there are editors available? (Otherwise I will wait for next upstream release,
that will include the sources, that contain figures in… PDF format. Aaaargh!).
http://github.com/dzerbino/velvet/tree/master/doc/manual_src/Suis_plot_1.pdf
Funnily, if Debian wants the source of this PDF, I am affraid that they will
need a R script and a few gigabytes of data ;)
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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