[Wikipedia-l] News about PDF generation

[Robert Arustamyan]

Gerard,

> Hoi,
> When your way of printing information, information that looks utterly
> different because of this wish / urge to include all kinds of other
> information that cannot be seen on the screen, you create a white elephant.
>
> Be assured that I will not hesitate to advise anyone not to use this tool
> when the page as seen on screen is not faithfully reproduced when printed.
> Be assured that this is not what you want. When the urge to be "politically
> correct" creates output in this way, you will effectively kill off open
> content and make it impossible to sell people the idea of Open Content.
>   
I suppose that you don't have idea about how we're going to implement 
the image license handling. No white elephants, no zoo at all. You're 
free to advise people not to use the tool if you don't like it but no 
necessity to talk about things that do not exist yet.

> As to my emotions, I am not enraged, I am bemused that people do not
> consider practical implications. I am totally happy when people act
> stupidly, it is their right, sometimes I am even willing to point this out.
>   
So am I ;)

Be happy!

Robert