Op 30/01/2013 11:04, W. Trevor King schreef: > If I came of a > bit gruff, it's probably because I was grumpy about having my old > patch submission disappear without a trace;).
Hey, you don't need to apologize for that. After all, we're all human. Look at me: I can get really happy when I see a question like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14591689/itext-rotate-page-content-while-creating-pdf Questions like this make me smile and I feel really good answering such a question. I can have an urge to be really rude when I see a question like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14599609/adding-text-with-itext-to-existing-pdf-at-fixed-position-does-not-work-pls-advi A question like this can spoil my complete day (and there's nothing I can do about it). The problem is that the person posting the second question probably doesn't realize he's hurting my feelings by saying iText is "not working" whereas the problem isn't caused by iText, but by a complete lack of understanding how iText and PDF works... > This is probably not the place to get into a Git-vs-Subversion > discussion ;), but clearly there are some well organized projects out > there using Git… It's a pain-vs-gain thing. I'm sure we'd gain plenty of comfort by switching to Git, but making the switch also involves a pain. It took some effort convincing some developers to switch from CVS to SVN; it will take some effort to switch from SVN to GIT. Also: switching from CVS to SVN was a project that needed to be prepared carefully. If we ever decide to switch to GIT, we'll have to make it a project too. I've watched all the Harvard "Start-up Secrets" sessions by Michael Skok: http://mjskok.com/ He says that the gain needs to be at least 10 times the pain before somebody does something else than the default (which is: changing nothing). Now I understand why there are still so many people using obsolete versions of iText. What I don't understand is those people who use obsolete versions of iText in new projects. That's like starting with a pain built-in into your design... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
