Re: Intellectual property (was: owner_id_build vs. copyprevention_bit)

2002-10-06 Thread Terence Tan
a different way to release your work... or especially if the entire world is comprised of GPL-licenced software. (And may I be damned for saying that.) -Terence Tan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (Darwin) iD8DBQE9oCu1Rp0kKDQrlIERAkc9AKCFBR+x98aeZ3D2HaKBcF+y8FI/4wCgoikX VRB

Re: Second thoughts on owner-id mechanism

2002-02-28 Thread Terence Tan
On Friday, March 1, 2002, at 08:02 , Bill Janssen wrote: The current setup XOR's the owner-id with the beginning of each zlib-compressed segment This makes it (cryptographically) fairly easy to get the owner-id out of the document A better scheme would be to construct a sequence of hash

Re: PDF conversions

2002-02-01 Thread Terence Tan
On Wednesday, January 30, 2002, at 02:39 , Bill Nalen/Towers Perrin wrote: Does anyone know or have code regarding conversion of pdf documents to plucker or pluckerable documents? My company has recently started posting our internal memos as pdf docs and my plucker can no longer handle

Re: Problem porting plucker-build to Fink

2001-12-11 Thread Terence Tan
Dirk Heiser wrote: BTW: What's Fink, and Install Package Creator Sowftware? cu, Dirk Fink is a package manager for distributing Mac OS X binaries, somewhat like RPMs. http://fink.sourceforge.net/ Personally, it sounds like a problem with netpbm. I'd say that Fink doesn't install the latest

Re: MacOS X support?

2001-11-30 Thread Terence Tan
David A. Desrosiers wrote: Are you interesting in porting the Plucker parser to Mac OS X (10.1)? Although I'm not a developer, I would be willing to help you with testing and feedback ... It should work where the Python parser works, and the new gui that Robert and Mike have pulled