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On Saturday 02 December 2006 7:49, Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Let me add some more emphasize to the "watermark" item.

would it make more sense to have these kinds of items in a document manager=
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app? that way one could manage their ebook collection and:

 - create new books by collating/splicing/slicing existing books
 - watermark books
 - generate citations
 - tag and otherwise organize them
 - etc, etc

these seem to all go together and really not belong in a *reader*. instead=
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they all really appear to be the sort of features one would expect to do wh=
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managing a set of documents rather than reading through them.

the manager app could work closely with the reader, but should probably be=
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separate so as to:

 - keep the UI clean
 - not encumber the other 98% of people who only use a pdf reader as a read=
er
 - follow the tried-and-proven "UNIX way" of simple, purposeful tools

speaking with the kde pdf team (formerly the ligature and kpdf teams) it se=
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they have the appetite to create a manager app, so maybe this would natural=
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follow.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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