Hello all, some of you already knew, others didn't, but I have a son who was diagnosed with cancer back in February 2008. It has been a very hard year for me. My son has had 18 chemo treatment and he lost his knee (we're talking about Osteosarcoma, a very aggressive bone cancer).
After over 9 months the chemo treatments are finally behind us and next week my son will have to undergo different scans and examinations to find out if the treatment was successful. If it was, we can start with the revalidation process (which will be very long). Due to these circumstances, I've been away from the mailing list frequently. When and if I responded, my responses may have seemed short and unfriendly. Today I've worked myself through a backlog consisting of almost 300 mails sent to the mailing list in the past few weeks. If you didn't receive an answer to your question yet, I have probably thrown away your mail. If you didn't find the answer yourself, you should post it again and probably rephrase it so that I can understand it. I easily discard questions that aren't clear. There are 4 questions remaining in my INBOX: - insert blank page with PdfCopy by Angelo Borsotti (I'll have to look into that) - Top Margin Differences on Page 1 (with code) by Ron Olson (I didn't have the time to run that code yet) - Image size in ColumnText by native.human (I know I've answered this question before on the mailing list, but I didn't find it yet) - Problems with getPageNumber (I need small standalone examples to test this) I may or may not provide the answer to these questions next week. I don't know, I'll probably be at the hospital a couple of days. However, the backlog of questions has made me realize how much work I've done for free in the past, answering questions on an almost daily basis. I've kind of "woken up" to the reality that I've spent an enormous amount of time on something I could or should be pay for. The iText library as you know it now, will remain available as a F/OSS library, but there will be some changes next year that should avoid situations like we've seen recently, with unanswered questions piling up, much to the frustration of everyone: the people with questions and the developers who don't have sufficient time to answer them (and to earn a living at the same time). I think everyone agrees that this isn't an ideal situation. This will change. More info about the changes will follow next year. best regards, Bruno ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php
