On 12/24/08 12:57 PM, Luiz Augusto wrote:
What is the current status of Extension:Pdfhandler and bugzilla:11215? It needs more testing or it will never get enabled due to Adobe patents? How can geeks and non-geeks wikimedians can help on debugging that extension?
AFAIK there's no patent/openness issues at stake as long as encrypted PDFs aren't being used...
I'm asking it because I've approximately 30GB of public domain scans in .pdf format to upload on Commons on the next months (see http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=928004#Royal_Society_Digital_Arch... further information on it) and because I fully agree to the reasons listed on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11215#c3
It seemed to work ok the last time I tested it and did some tweaks... Before a live test deployment, the software dependencies will need to be installed, which should be pretty straightforward.
[Yeah, I'm asking it in the Christmas day... Extension:Pdfhandler and Extension:ABC are good options of christmas gifts for Wikisource wikis ;-) ]
:)
-- brion