[FM Discuss] pdf preflight

adam adam at flossmanuals.net
Mon Mar 18 15:11:06 PDT 2013


you need chrome 27 now

adam

On 03/19/2013 11:05 AM, Martin Kean wrote:
> I'm having no luck with bookjs – is it working?
> I followed the demo instructions, but get blank pages or grid of blue lines.
> Chrome and Canary.
> It looks like it will be really good though.
>
> Martin
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> Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] pdf preflight
>
> i think PDF is going to be currency for paper production for a long
> time and paper will be important for a long time. also in other
> communities, such as scientific research, PDF is the currency. they
> love pdf...
>
> so i think it is well worth it.
>
> also, have you tried bookjs? it will replace the current objavi PDF
> renderer soon
>
> adam
>
> On Mon 18 Mar 2013 10:07:20 AM NZDT, cedric.gemy at gmail.com wrote:
>> It might be better to have a better tool, that none. But i really think
>> that in 3 days, really little things can be done.
>> If PODOFO or GNUPDF guys (that have been fonded by FSF several months)
>> told me that  there library was to weak to do this, i'm not sure a such
>> little app coudl do it right.
>>
>> But as Objavi PDFs are "so" bad (see all the mails complaining and mine
>> last years with all test reports), it could be a good option to know
>> which way to put efforts on improvements. Apart from pdf-preflight, do
>> we really need a new software or just improve what we have?
>> Another point : is it time to put so much effort in a PDF testing tool
>> now that it has epub as competitor ?
>>
>> Cedric
>>
>> Le 17/03/2013 21:55, adam a écrit :
>>> hmmmm....would be good to get some $ to throw at this...is it
>>> something that could be managed at a 2-3 day hack fest at lgru?
>>>
>>> adam
>>
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