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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Unified document viewer, lack of communication
From:       Manuel Amador <rudd-o () amautacorp ! com>
Date:       2005-06-19 23:27:03
Message-ID: 1119223624.16403.80.camel () master ! amauta
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El sáb, 04-06-2005 a las 19:14 +0200, Albert Astals Cid escribió:

> >
> > Why does a document viewer needs to open pictures?
> It does not need, you'll notice you can open ONLY pdf files from kpdf, if you 
> want to open images you need to use kpdf foo.png from the shell.
> i just did it as a proof of concept that we could open other things different 
> of pdf. But on the other said AFAIK a fax is nothing more than a tiff that is 
> an image, right?

There's more than just image data in TIFF faxes.  There's resolution to
be paid attention to, where usually  horizontal and vertical resolution
are different.  There's different pages.  Actually, there's metadata
that should be shown (if stored on the file by the receiving
application).

> 
> > You may know that I have contacted you about a possible collaboration a few
> > months ago, nothing came out of it.
> Yes, i remember it, i would not say i was the only guilty of making it fail, 
> but even if i was, does it matter?
> 
> > And I replyed to a post of Enrico Ros on kde-graphics-devel on the future
> > of KPDF with another offer to combine our efforts. No one even answerd.
> > http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-graphics-devel/2005-February/000095.html
> > Some things I said in this post about KViewShell are not valid anymore. For
> > example we now support documents with more then one papersizes.
> >
> > So I don't understand what is different know? 
> Nothing is different now, i'm not going to do any work of it. 
> > That Google drops some money?
> And that atracts other person completely unrelated to me to work on it? Your 
> sentence seems to imply i'm doing something wrong that now google is offering 
> money? Could you please explain it?
> 
> > > The thing is "do the person that implements the unified shell has to use
> > > kpdf or kdvi as a base?" i don't know, the bounty text says to use kpdf
> > > but i assume that is because Zack has not used kdvi lately and has seen
> > > how much it has matured.
> > >
> > > Piotr Szymanski (Niedakh on irc djurban username in svn iirc) wants to
> > > implement that bounty, i think we should leave him decide which shell he
> > > prefers to work on/expand and ask his questions.
> >
> > Will he also maintain it after the bounty?
> Why do you ask it to me and not to the two messages he has sent to the list?
> 
> Albert (who does not understand the beligerancy kdvi devels seem to have 
> against him)
> 
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Wilfried.
> >
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