Yury G. Kudryashov
d477d95f31
This is a quote from http://www.johannes-bauer.com/xpdf/xpdf.php , any moral issues can be posted on the mailing list ;) "If you are the proud owner of a proprietary PDF-Creator like "Adobe Acrobat" you probably have noticed that it gives you the option to make the resulting PDF protected in a way that you cannot copy any text from it or that you cannot extract the pictures within. What a nice little feature. Now what this technically does is to set a flag in the PDF telling the reader program "Please don't let the mean user copy any content from me! ". However, the whole process relies on the reader progam (like "Adobe Acrobat Reader" or "xpdf", in our case) to obey the request of the PDF creator. Now at this point, xpdf really pissed me off. Because it really does obey the completely non-sensical request of the PDF creator. Probably because of some legal trouble which Adobe might give them if they did not obey it. But logically there is absolutely no reason to restrict the
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extraction of text of graphical images from a PDF file. Text I could read and type it in again. Pictures I could photograph off my PC screen. It's completely moronic. It's Adobe. Plus some people at my college think it's protecting their documents well. They seem to believe that content which is made for education should under no circumstances leak to the outside - somebody could maybe learn something! It would be a disaster! It is obvious they're morons. This patch just proves my point."
svn path=/nixpkgs/branches/stdenv-updates/; revision=9875
2007-12-08 01:05:50 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
459b386ff9
* xpdf updated to 3.02pl1. Also patch its configuration file so that
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it uses the Base-14 fonts from Ghostscript.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=9396
2007-10-03 12:16:48 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d03cc6bcf3
* Latest Xpdf.
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svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=8543
2007-04-05 09:09:10 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
d511baa7d9
add security patch
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svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=5591
2006-07-05 14:00:05 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
4acfb1a684
* More examples of interpolation.
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svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=5244
2006-05-01 15:25:17 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
d56e3d6f5a
* Use string interpolation.
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svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=5243
2006-05-01 14:53:08 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
3389f4bc36
* Copy lots of files to nix.cs.uu.nl.
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svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=4623
2006-01-30 16:04:03 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
db8da13e0d
* Added t1lib, a library for Type 1 font support. Enabled it in xpdf.
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svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=4328
2005-12-02 23:21:40 +00:00
Eelco Dolstra
6281842b45
* Added Lesstif (a Motif clone).
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* Enabled the actual xpdf GUI in xpdf.
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=4327
2005-12-02 22:49:51 +00:00
Armijn Hemel
f880e6e099
add xpdf
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svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=4311
2005-11-27 21:06:08 +00:00
