Bug#562070: RFP: diffpdf -- compares two PDF files textually or visually
On 2009-12-23, David Paleino wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 December 2009 11:02:48, Mark Summerfield wrote:
> > Hi David,
>
> Hello Mark,
>
> > What I've done instead is removed mention of these examples from the
> > About text (in mainwindow.cpp); they weren't ever mentioned in the
> > README. This isn't because I mind you having the source but they were
> > created using the lout typesetting system and I don't want to add that
> > as a dependency.
> >
> > I've also put the PDFs on my website and now mention them in the README.
>
> Great!
>
> > And I've taken the opportunity to do a tiny update to the program (a
> > cosmetic improvement to the options dialog), and to update the copyright
> > year. So there is now a new tarball,
> > http://www.qtrac.eu/diffpdf-0.4.0.tar.gz
>
> I'm attaching a manpage I wrote, please consider including it in your next
> upload.
OK.
> > I very much want DiffPDF to be part of Debian, so please let me know if
> > I need to do anything else.
>
> Sure.
> One thing I would do is clarifying the licensing information for images/*.
> Where did you get them from? So that I can put a notice in
debian/copyright
> mentioning this (and pointing to this bugreport, for future reference).
I got them from KDE (I mention this at the very end of the README).
> Also, I have a couple of suggestion, but these could be added in a future
> release. It would be cool to be able to do:
>
> $ diffpdf --visual file1 file2
>
> (or --textual), and have it automatically start the comparison.
I'll probably add both since the default comparison mode is the one that
was last set in the GUI.
> Thank you for cooperating!
That's okay:-)
BTW The next release is planned for May or June 2010; I'll let you know
when it actually happens.
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Mark Summerfield, Qtrac Ltd, www.qtrac.eu
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