Hi,
My name is Daniel and I really liked your initiative on spreading the word about Free PDF Readers. I'm trying to do the same for free applications for Mac OS X in my blog ( http://freeapps4mac.blogspot.com/). When I saw your list of PDF Readers for Mac I was surprised not to see Skim (http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/) witch is, on my humble opinion, the best alternative for the Mac default or the Adobe PDF reader for Mac. Take a look at it and add it to your list, if you think it's worth it.
Cheers and keep up the good work, -- Daniel Casanova
Hi Daniel,
we did have Skim on the site at the beginning. However we found out, that Skim uses a Proprietary Library for rendering PDF (Pdfkit). Since that is the core of a PDF-Reader, we cannot recommend it. It would be similar to recommending Firefox with an Adobe-Plugin ("free application, with proprietary core").
I hope you understand. Maybe you can convince the Skim-developers to switch to a free alternative. In that case we would be most happy to recommend Skim!
Regards, Hannes Hauswedell pdfreaders.org / FSFE
Am Mittwoch, 1. Juli 2009 16:26:19 schrieb Daniel Casanova:
Hi,
My name is Daniel and I really liked your initiative on spreading the word about Free PDF Readers. I'm trying to do the same for free applications for Mac OS X in my blog ( http://freeapps4mac.blogspot.com/). When I saw your list of PDF Readers for Mac I was surprised not to see Skim (http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/) witch is, on my humble opinion, the best alternative for the Mac default or the Adobe PDF reader for Mac. Take a look at it and add it to your list, if you think it's worth it.
Cheers and keep up the good work,
Daniel Casanova
Hi Daniel,
thanks for your feedback.
We don't have a policy that disallows pdf readers which have proprietary dependencies.
Skim uses the pdf rendering engine from Mac OS which is not free. For that reason we removed skim from our list.
Greetings from Berlin,
HennR
Daniel Casanova schrieb:
Hi,
My name is Daniel and I really liked your initiative on spreading the word about Free PDF Readers. I'm trying to do the same for free applications for Mac OS X in my blog (http://freeapps4mac.blogspot.com/). When I saw your list of PDF Readers for Mac I was surprised not to see Skim (http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/) witch is, on my humble opinion, the best alternative for the Mac default or the Adobe PDF reader for Mac. Take a look at it and add it to your list, if you think it's worth it.
Cheers and keep up the good work,
Daniel Casanova
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