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On 2014-12-07 15:02, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: |
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> >> The most important consumer is app-text/pdftk Unfortunately, |
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> >> there is still no replacement for the latter which works as |
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> >> good, especially if you have tricky pdfs to process. Loosing gcj |
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> >> would therefore be a real loss. |
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> > As long as you're fine with any command-line pdf processing tool, |
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> > you could use app-text/cpdf which I've used for a long time and |
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> > just added to the tree. |
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> > Note that it's licensed under a non-commercial type license |
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> > though. |
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> Why would we want to replace a working GPL-2 application for an |
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> application under a non-free license? As one of the users of |
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> app-text/pdftk I'm not a big supporter of this (although I have not |
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> looked into mcpdf as was brought up earlier in this thread, although |
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> that as well seems to be under a more restrictive AGPL-3 license). |
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I'm not saying it's a replacement, it's an alternative. Also, some of us |
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are less picky about licensing issues as long as the source code is |
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available and free for personal use. :) |
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Tim |
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