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| sebras | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/MuPDF I'm doing my best to contest its deletion, but I have no good references. do any of you have a suggestion? | 09:55.26 |
| kens | Your comment looks reasonable to me. Possibly the article should be expanded upon, and the lawsuit diminished in importance. But I know nothing about editing Wikipedia | 09:57.31 |
| | Actually I can't really see why the article is scheduled for deletion. THere is no apsm, its not really 'all about the lawsuit', and it does a fair job of describing the software. | 09:58.24 |
| gegooo | wtf. I even considered to make an article about MuPDF in german Wikipedia... | 10:00.51 |
| kens | In fact there are oly 2 mentions of the lawsuit, once in the body and one reference. That seems reasonable to me, the other references are to ports, news and such. | 10:01.37 |
| gegooo | I am writing an additional "Keep". | 10:01.40 |
| kens | I can't really comment on the 'Notability' requirement, but a quick Google turns up 165,000 results. For example, here's another open source reference: | 10:02.54 |
| | http://www.paehl.com/open_source/?MUPDF | 10:02.54 |
| | http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/MuPDF | 10:04.09 |
| | http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/office/mupdf/ | 10:04.34 |
| | http://henry.precheur.org/misc/mupdf | 10:05.35 |
| sebras | kens: excellent, thanks! I'll refer to those in the discussion when I get home from work. | 10:34.11 |
| kens | No problem, thanks for looking after it ! | 10:34.25 |
| sebras | kens: of course! | 10:36.57 |
| | gegooo: thanks for voting keep. | 10:47.20 |
| Robin_Watts | "is there a cost for the commercial verson of Ghostscript" - if there wasn't, how would it be commercial? :) | 13:44.20 |
| kens | :-) | 13:44.29 |
| | Just sending a reply and forwardng to Scott | 13:44.37 |
| chrisl | That's even more annoying than: why does the substitute for a Bold font look bold........? | 13:45.43 |
| kens | Yeah, I thought that was particularly bizarre..... | 13:46.02 |
| chrisl | Crazy idea to bolden a "Light" font in the first place :-( | 13:46.47 |
| kens | I expect they didn't buy the Regular version or something. Or maybe it doesn't come in regular (in which case why not use another font ?).... | 13:47.27 |
| chrisl | Yeh, I know, but then embed the fricken font! | 13:48.10 |
| kens | Well yes. Your first comment 'its a substitute, it *going* to be wrong' seemed the best to me. | 13:48.38 |
| chrisl | This file is especially dumb: it uses two CIDFonts, one *is* embedded and one isn't - huh? | 13:49.01 |
| kens | ROFL | 13:49.08 |
| chrisl | The problem is, this is a case of GS being *too* clever in it's substitution - if it wasn't *adding* the boldening effect to the font (even when the ForceBold flag isn't set), I'd say "tough", but..... | 13:50.52 |
| kens | I always thought that our regular substitution was too complex. | 13:51.27 |
| | Should just substitute for Courier and tell everyone to get used to it. | 13:51.47 |
| chrisl | Well, it'll be even more complex when I've finished with this! | 13:51.50 |
| diverdude | How do i edit the metadata (eg. name or author) of a jpg file? | 15:04.11 |
| Robin_Watts | diverdude: That's not even vaguely on topic for this group. | 15:05.27 |
| diverdude | its not? | 15:05.39 |
| Robin_Watts | Not unless you meant PDF rather than jpeg :) | 15:06.11 |
| diverdude | i thought ghostscript can edit jpg | 15:08.46 |
| kens | ghostscript can't edit anything | 15:09.07 |
| diverdude | thats weird | 15:10.16 |
| Robin_Watts | has hiccups. | 15:14.20 |
| henrys | kens:PCL should support FirstPage and LastPage is there a bug? | 15:49.09 |
| kens | I didn't realise that was possible. | 15:49.25 |
| | The bug is obviously my comprehension | 15:49.44 |
| henrys | Tuesday we'll have to talk about support response. Marcos doing it alone is not enough | 15:54.59 |
| kens | OK. | 15:55.22 |
| henrys | kens:what command line syntax were you using to disable embedding fonts in pcl->pdf? | 16:56.50 |
| kens | If I wanted to do it I'd use "/EmbedAllFonts false" but I haven't been doing it at all recently. Why did you think I was ? | 16:57.41 |
| henrys | how is the urw -> base 14 used? | 16:58.39 |
| | is that the default? | 16:58.52 |
| kens | The default is that the base 14 fonts are not embedded | 16:59.04 |
| | I think you can change that with /EmbedAllFonts true | 16:59.29 |
| | Of course you have to run a PostScript file which uses a base14 font, but doesn't include it. | 17:00.05 |
| henrys | I am trying to disable embedding it doesn't seem to work - probably the postscript name is fouling it up. | 17:01.24 |
| kens | Possibly. Can you send me an email if you want me to look at something, I'm kind of busy at teh moment, nearly fixed the problem which has stalled me for a week. | 17:02.02 |
| henrys | sure no big deal | 17:02.14 |
| kens | D'oh! Wondering why my changes weren't making it, just realised I've been building a Release configuration instead of debug.... | 17:24.24 |
| chrisl | kens: if it makes you feel any better, I spent 20 minutes investigating cluster differences which turned out to be because I'd left a disassembled font file in the Font directory! :-( | 17:30.40 |
| kens | Been there before too.... | 17:30.58 |
| | THis error came from building a release set for a customer last week. | 17:31.13 |
| | But having rebuilt everything I think I may finally have resolved my problem. Off to the cluster to test. | 17:31.41 |
| chrisl | Well, I'm fighting with Sun's (Oracle's) appalling C compiler - what a piece of crap :-( | 17:32.37 |
| kens | It sounds like it. | 17:32.45 |
| | Hmm, I'm only getting 40KB/s writing to the cluster. I wonder if I've caught Robin's ADSL disease. | 17:33.40 |
| chrisl | Well, I've narrowed: if you compile a non-optimised build of SSE2 code, it gives a warning about needing the SSE2 option, but completes the build. If you try an optimised build, it fails with an error! | 17:33.58 |
| kens | Stupid compiler... | 17:34.14 |
| chrisl | Yep, I am highly unimpressed :-( | 17:35.05 |
| kens | OK cluster test has started, I'll be back later to see how it goes. | 17:35.43 |
| henrys | bbiaw | 18:12.03 |
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