El dimecres, 7 de novembre de 2018, a les 17:52:46 CET, Tobias Deiminger va escriure: > Hi, > > Am 07.11.2018 07:03 schrieb Adam Reichold: > > Hello, > > > > Am 06.11.18 um 23:40 schrieb Albert Astals Cid: > >> As said by Tobias on a merge request, at some point we'll probably > >> start seeing bugs because of features used in PDF 2.0 that we don't > >> support. > >> > >> TBH i've no idea if Adobe products support it right now, but i guess > >> they eventually will. > >> > >> Problem is in typical ISO fashion the spec is not freely available. > >> > >> Also as typical it is relatively easy to find a draft spec on their > >> own website > >> https://www.pdfa.org/wp-content/until2016_uploads/2016/04/2016-02-15_ISO-32000-2_DIS_3.pdf > >> > >> Which given it's freely available on the internet I have only to guess > >> it's fine to download. > >> > >> But of course it's a draft so one would not want to use it as > >> definitive answer. > > > > But isn't this somewhat true even for the final version? Meaning that > > it > > will never be the definite answer as we will always look at other > > implementations or decide on our own that a document maybe formally > > incorrect or outright broken, but we still want to support it because > > our users want us to? > > We can support "broken" documents, that's fine imo. Additionally, if we > have the standard at hand, we can cite some place and tell the bug > reporter "please give your composer vendor a hint to fix it at their > side too", just to improve the world a little bit:) We also want to > implement new features, poppler is not really complete in that sense. > There the standard should be the definite source of truth, and some of > us will eventually need it. > > >> At this point the only answer I have is, I guess we could convince the > >> KDE e.V. or the GNOME Foundation to sponsor the Euros to someone that > >> really wants to read the document (and has a track record of > >> contributing to poppler). > > Sounds good. Maybe we could get some more copies? ISO says "We can grant > extensions to your original single-user licence so you can make more > copies to share at work." [0] Out of curiosity I'm going to ask at DIN > e.V. (the ISO deputy in my case) what would be the pricing for say 2..5 > users in an open source project. Then KDE e.V./GNOME Foundation can > decide if and how much they could sponsor, and we can decide if we put > private money into it. Are you ok with that?
Asking is free :) > > Cheers Tobias > > [0] > https://www.iso.org/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/store/en/PUB100206.pdf > > > Interested organizations (I am thinking for example of public > > administrations) might also directly commission people to implement > > various functions from the standard and provide access to these > > documents but keep the ownership of the license so that it is not bound > > to a single person. > > > > Regards, > > Adam > > > >> Cheers, > >> Albert > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> poppler mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > poppler mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler > _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
