nixpkgs/pkgs
Wouter den Breejen 040966d95d This is a quote from http://www.johannes-bauer.com/xpdf/xpdf.php, any moral issues can be posted on the mailing list ;) "If you are the proud owner of a proprietary PDF-Creator like "Adobe Acrobat" you probably have noticed that it gives you the option to make the resulting PDF protected in a way that you cannot copy any text from it or that you cannot extract the pictures within. What a nice little feature. Now what this technically does is to set a flag in the PDF telling the reader program "Please don't let the mean user copy any content from me! ". However, the whole process relies on the reader progam (like "Adobe Acrobat Reader" or "xpdf", in our case) to obey the request of the PDF creator. Now at this point, xpdf really pissed me off. Because it really does obey the completely non-sensical request of the PDF creator. Probably because of some legal trouble which Adobe might give them if they did not obey it. But logically there is absolutely no reason to restrict the extraction of text of graphical images from a PDF file. Text I could read and type it in again. Pictures I could photograph off my PC screen. It's completely moronic. It's Adobe. Plus some people at my college think it's protecting their documents well. They seem to believe that content which is made for education should under no circumstances leak to the outside - somebody could maybe learn something! It would be a disaster! It is obvious they're morons. This patch just proves my point."
svn path=/nixpkgs/trunk/; revision=9765
2007-11-20 17:27:24 +00:00
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applications This is a quote from http://www.johannes-bauer.com/xpdf/xpdf.php, any moral issues can be posted on the mailing list ;) "If you are the proud owner of a proprietary PDF-Creator like "Adobe Acrobat" you probably have noticed that it gives you the option to make the resulting PDF protected in a way that you cannot copy any text from it or that you cannot extract the pictures within. What a nice little feature. Now what this technically does is to set a flag in the PDF telling the reader program "Please don't let the mean user copy any content from me! ". However, the whole process relies on the reader progam (like "Adobe Acrobat Reader" or "xpdf", in our case) to obey the request of the PDF creator. Now at this point, xpdf really pissed me off. Because it really does obey the completely non-sensical request of the PDF creator. Probably because of some legal trouble which Adobe might give them if they did not obey it. But logically there is absolutely no reason to restrict the extraction of text of graphical images from a PDF file. Text I could read and type it in again. Pictures I could photograph off my PC screen. It's completely moronic. It's Adobe. Plus some people at my college think it's protecting their documents well. They seem to believe that content which is made for education should under no circumstances leak to the outside - somebody could maybe learn something! It would be a disaster! It is obvious they're morons. This patch just proves my point." 2007-11-20 17:27:24 +00:00
build-support implemented proposal by niksnut. 2007-11-13 01:26:54 +00:00
configs/etc d'oh, don't actually gzip it 2006-03-08 19:25:44 +00:00
data Added poppler and poppler-data 2007-11-11 16:00:51 +00:00
desktops This was needed for me to get a working gnome-doc-utils package 2007-11-16 18:37:23 +00:00
development gdb upgraded 2007-11-16 17:30:34 +00:00
games Fixed log nesting; added Qi. 2007-11-08 14:34:54 +00:00
lib Beta-version of builderDefs fixes. 2007-11-12 16:42:13 +00:00
misc Updated wine to 9.49 2007-11-17 16:12:39 +00:00
os-specific/linux Not yet working nfs-utils with dependency 2007-11-20 15:55:37 +00:00
servers * Symlink $out/bin to $out/libexec. 2007-11-12 16:45:47 +00:00
shells * Fix a bunch of URLs. 2007-09-11 10:15:07 +00:00
stdenv Fixed synaptics; Added GOCR (not that it is a good OCR); reverted MarcWeber's update to setup-new-2.sh (he has no time to use it in nearest future; later I hope it will be irrelevant) 2007-11-09 13:54:02 +00:00
test Missing gecko now. 2007-11-16 14:41:15 +00:00
tools * Use the latest Nix. 2007-11-19 11:07:51 +00:00
top-level Not yet working nfs-utils with dependency 2007-11-20 15:55:37 +00:00