Greetings,
What is the criteria for compiling the table?
The reason I ask is because for OS X, the following are all available via package managers such as MacPorts, even though the table indicates they are not:
ePDFView https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/print/epdfview/Portfile
Evince https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/gnome/evince/Portfile
MuPDF https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/graphics/mupdf/Portfile
GhostScript https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/print/ghostscript/Portfile
And for the ones alaready on the list:
gv https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/print/gv/Portfile
Okular https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/kde/okular/Portfile
xpdf https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/graphics/xpdf/Portfile
Lastly, this is a popular tool, but it may be BSD rather than GPL licensed:
Skim http://skim-app.sourceforge.net
Art
Dear Art,
On 26/07/13 11:00, Art McGee wrote:
What is the criteria for compiling the table?
It is a bit vague (and the table is going to change). If a software package claims to support a specific operating system, then we will obviously mark the reader to support that OS. If a specific OS has a supported package in their package collection, the same is also true.
For cases where we are not convinced that the developers or the system's package maintainers are willing to provide support to users, we consider it unwise to claim that the package is available for the system.
Lastly, this is a popular tool, but it may be BSD rather than GPL licensed:
We do not care for the licence as long as it is a Free Software licence. Unfortunately, Skim makes use of OS X proprietary components to render PDFs, and thus we cannot recommend it.
Yours aye,
Hi Art,
* Art McGee amcgee@gmail.com [2013-07-26 04:00:08 -0700]:
What is the criteria for compiling the table?
All of the readers have to be Free Software.
The reason I ask is because for OS X, the following are all available via package managers such as MacPorts, even though the table indicates they are not:
We did not know about that. Have you tested them? So are you able to display a PDF using them on MacOSX?
ePDFView https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/print/epdfview/Portfile
Evince https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/gnome/evince/Portfile
MuPDF https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/graphics/mupdf/Portfile
GhostScript https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/print/ghostscript/Portfile
And for the ones alaready on the list:
gv https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/print/gv/Portfile
Okular https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/kde/okular/Portfile
xpdf https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/graphics/xpdf/Portfile
You could help us a lot if you send us a screenshot per application on MacOSX.
Lastly, this is a popular tool, but it may be BSD rather than GPL licensed:
We do not make a difference between different Free Software licenses. But skim depends on a non-free library to display PDFs. That's why we have removed it from the list.
Thanks a lot! Matthias