Re: [iText-questions] My plan to shut down the mailing-list

2012-10-08 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 8/10/2012 17:02, McGee, Edwin F. Sr. schreef: > I would agree with those wishing to keep the mailing list open and > selectively responding/posting the questions which meet mailing list criteria. I see many +1's for answers in favor of keeping the mailing list. I'm an autist, and one of my li

Re: [iText-questions] Fwd: AcroFields Help, dinamic width/Height for text fields

2012-10-08 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 9/10/2012 8:35, Andrea Arcangeli schreef: > Some suggestions? As suggested by many people in the thread "My plan to shut down the mailing list", the best answer to this question is: "please read the documentation." --

Re: [iText-questions] My plan to shut down the mailing-list

2012-10-08 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 8/10/2012 17:48, Alex Jones schreef: > a traditional forum A traditional forum involves more administrative work than a mailing list. The mailing list: I need to look at the mails that are put on hold, and then filter those that are SPAM: see http://lowagie.com/itextml Most problematic are th

Re: [iText-questions] My plan to shut down the mailing-list

2012-10-08 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 9/10/2012 4:22, Gershkovich, Peter schreef: > Do what you feel is right. I'm pleasantly surprised by the reactions on my rant. I've read some really good suggestions. -- Don't let slow site performance ruin your busines

Re: [iText-questions] My plan to shut down the mailing-list

2012-10-08 Thread Bruno Lowagie
Op 8/10/2012 19:06, linuxunil schreef: > I personally am against the monetization of the library and forum. You can > not change the philosophy of a project like this. I agree. Documentation should be free. That's why I decided to write the new tutorials without a publisher. I also don't like the

Re: [iText-questions] My plan to shut down the mailing-list

2012-10-08 Thread Gershkovich, Peter
Bruno, Do what you feel is right. In my opinion, with your book an other resources available there is very little one need to ask in order to get going. Robert Sheckley wrote in one of his short stories that "in order to ask a question you need to know most of the answer". There should be a disc

Re: [iText-questions] My plan to shut down the mailing-list

2012-10-08 Thread Alex Jones
I've recently joined the mailing list and I found it to be invaluable, the only reason I found it so useful is that there aren't any decent official forums. You need to purchase the book and then each of the forum sections are chapters in the book, I appreciate the need to monetize the library and

Re: [iText-questions] My plan to shut down the mailing-list

2012-10-08 Thread Bill Ensley
+1 On 10/8/2012 8:02 AM, McGee, Edwin F. Sr. wrote: I would agree with those wishing to keep the mailing list open and selectively responding/posting the questions which meet mailing list criteria. As mentioned by another member of the mailing list, simply because I submit a question doesn't

Re: [iText-questions] My plan to shut down the mailing-list

2012-10-08 Thread McGee, Edwin F. Sr.
I would agree with those wishing to keep the mailing list open and selectively responding/posting the questions which meet mailing list criteria. As mentioned by another member of the mailing list, simply because I submit a question doesn't mean the question will be posted. Furthermore, I unde

Re: [iText-questions] My plan to shut down the mailing-list

2012-10-08 Thread John Renfrew
Personally. I would prefer the mailing list, but I FULLY understand your frustration with 'stupid' questions, but your stance of 'why are you asking ME to do your work for you for free' is completely valid. But then what about those of us who use iText and keep our work open? Some of us are not in