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| skillachie | Hi Guys/Gals | 00:42.13 |
| | Can anyone provide a rough estimate to license MuPDF to be used in an Android and IOS reading app ? I have been trying to find some estimate online without sending an email to prevent us and Ghostscript from wasting time if it turns out to be too costly | 00:43.15 |
| | The PDF reader will only be only be used to read PDF books but majority of our books are in EPUB . However we would like to support PDF as well | 00:44.00 |
| | anybody ? | 01:58.24 |
| Robin_Watts | skillachie: We can't provide such an estimate. | 07:54.00 |
| | Engineering never gets involved. | 07:54.08 |
| | Send an email to Scott, and talk to him. | 07:54.23 |
| | Describe exactly what you want to do. Give as much information as you can. How many copies you envisage selling, at what price. | 07:54.47 |
| | Every license is individually tailored to the needs of the licensee. There is no 'standard' fee. | 07:55.13 |
| | If you have a realistic business plan, we will be able to accomodate you, somehow. | 08:04.56 |
| skillachie | Hi Robin | 12:40.51 |
| | Ok I can send an email | 12:40.56 |
| | The number of users will be dependent on the number of users that download our app. | 12:44.41 |
| | Hopefully the license is not too expensive to completely prevent a company with not revenue or funding yet from starting | 12:45.19 |
| mvrhel_laptop | Robin_Watts: are you around? | 20:27.19 |
| Robin_Watts | I am. | 21:31.04 |
| rayjj | Robin_Watts: I noticed that you didn't discuss EPUB with "skillachie". How is it that someone that is concerned about cost can provide EPUB ? Is there a free reader ? If so, why did we (Tor) have to re-invent and EPUB reader ? | 22:12.07 |
| skillachie | We are building more than just a reader. The books we plan to distribute through our platform are EPUBS but we want to add support for PDF for readers to be able to also use our app to read PDF books if they own them | 22:15.09 |
| | We will reach out to Scott as suggested. If it is reasonable then all is well | 22:17.12 |
| | We can provide EPUB because we already invested development time to built out our reader. We will be supporting the full EPUB3 spec. For where we want to take interactivity PDF will not be used | 22:18.51 |
| | We want to add support as a convenience for our readers to be clear | 22:19.02 |
| rayjj | skillachie: Please make sure and mention to Scott that you have developed and EPUB3 reader. The mupdf code does allow for interactivity from the calling app -- following hyperlinks, form filling and digital signature, and some of our platform apps support this, but not all. Note we (Artifex) also has a separate (recently acquired) product to accept and convert "Office" documents Word, Excel,... | 22:37.47 |
| | ...PowerPoint (SmartOffice) and allow editing, etc. that may be of interest. | 22:37.48 |
| | skillachie: and if you have an EPUB3 software, we are "curious" | 22:38.49 |
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