2 Jun
2005
2 Jun
'05
10:41 p.m.
The point was that anyone that wants to be able to
easily handle
PDF's can do so very cheaply and are not required to deal with either
Micro$loth or Adobe.
Easily?
Which of those "several open source packages" includes a scriptable
(ie, command-line) tool to extract the embedded images from a PDF?
(Not to render them and give the resulting rendered image, but to
extract the image itself.) Certainly ghostscript couldn't last time I
looked.
Without that, I can't consider it fair to say that I can "easily handle
PDFs", since that's the second most common thing I want to do with
PDFs. (The first most common is to convert to PostScript for printing,
which ghostscript does do a reasonably good job of.)
More to the point people complaining over Windoze
being a closed
system misses the point that this group is filled with people that
never gave a thought to open source OS's when they got their classic
systems.
Perhaps you see no difference between running classic closed-source
software on a classic machine with no networking, often no connection
to anything else, and running modern closed-source software on a modern
machine with a network link.
I, on the other hand, see many differences, at least a few of which
would be relevant for me if I had any machines to which the question
even applied.
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