Re: RFS: xpdf (updated package)
Hi, Jakub.
On Jun 04 2010, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>, 2010-06-03, 16:00:
> >Thank you very much for your warm reception. :-)
>
> Don't get me wrong: I believe that all PDF readers in Debian suck
> and I appreciate that you want to change that state.
Ah, now your opinion is clearer.
> However, I'd like you to bear in mind that some people are using xpdf
> because of features that you are going to inadvertently kill
> e.g. decent font handling or modest dependencies.
Just for the record, I am studying the way that the font handling may be
performed and don't substitute the Base14 fonts with anything else than
PostScript fonts.
Regarding the dependencies, I think that things tend to be smaller
rather than larger.
Regards,
--
Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8
http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de
DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br
Reply to: