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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 86787] Merge & Split PDF documents
From:       rgpublic () gmx ! net
Date:       2005-02-28 21:00:14
Message-ID: 20050228210014.11440.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From rgpublic gmx net  2005-02-28 22:00 -------
As someone who is working in an adv. agency and therefore having
to do with pdfs very often I want to stress the following points:
1) A fast, unbloated PDF viewer for KDE is certainly desireable
2) An app like Acrobat *PRO* is badly needed for the Linux desktop as well
3) Open Source programming resources are scarce so it would be
really bad if there would be the need to have two separate versions.
4) Firefox shows that a comprehensive, easily extensible architecture
doesnt necesarrily mean bloat. The solution: A plugin architecture
(Perhaps this can be achieved with KParts technology here as well?)
5) Adobe Acrobat also uses a plugin architecture. Unfortunately
many useless plugins are enabled in the default PDF viewer by default
and there is no easy way for the user to disable them. There is no
need to repeat that error.

Apart from all that I think that extracting pages from a PDF is not
a thing that I would consider "bloat", even in a viewer. I would
understand if other demands like a ruler or color picker (I was always
dreaming about these in a Linux PDF viewer) were denied here. Extracting
pages is everyday use. Imagine you have a large 200 pages manual and just
need a single page. There is no way whatsoever for the average user to
do this. This is very bad in Adobe Reader already IMHO. It would be great
if an Open Source PDF viewer really had an advantage (in terms of
features) in contrast to what's commercially available.

Thanks for listening (and already making KPDF a really great viewer).
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