Re: [Rlib-devel] RLIB 1.2.1 Patch

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

Nice!

At first glace patch looks pretty good.  The XML Input looks pretty
good.. I don't see any real problems there hower I can't tell if
breaking will work @ first glance.

Output looks pretty good except things like pages across doesn't look
like it will work.  

As far as the auto* stuff.. I'll take a poke at it.  I can usually force
it into submission.

How hard would it be to fix the font finding stuff?  The hard coded font
stuff would be a downer.

This patch would be good for HEAD (1.3.x).. any chance you could rework
it for HEAD.. INPUT has not changed at all, OUTPUT however is chaning as
some of us @ SICOM are making graphing work.  Which leads to the next
question.. Would you be willing to sync the PSLIB stuff to what we're
doing w/ graphing??

If so I'd be happy to include it in rlib propper and give you guys
credit all that good stuff.

Also we have a copyright assignment thing
http://rlib.sicompos.com/copyright_form.pdf

Which basically says You give us copyright and we give it right back to
you on all your contributions. 

In other words, we don't have to drag you with us if we go to court to
defend the GPL, and we can use a dual license like Mozilla does for
commercial purposes. (Ximian, Novel, Sun, others do it also)

We would need Jeremy to sign it also.  I hope this won't be a problem
and if you need futher clarification let me know.

PS.  What brought this on??  Out of curiosity what are you using RLIB
for?

Again.. Thanks!

- bob


On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 17:52 -0600, Warren Smith wrote:
> Yeah, we know rlib 1.3.0 is out, but we started this batch beforehand.
> So, without further delay, this patch adds a new xml-based input for
> flat-file data and a PSLIB (pslib.sf.net)-based postscript output filter
> for fully GPL pdf generation (using ps2pdf). The only problem is that
> pslib is kind of retarded in it's font finding algorithm (compared to
> clibpdf's) and the font is currently hard-coded to tex's courier 8-pt
> font as installed by debian package tetex-extras. Other than that, it
> works like a charm.
> 
> You may have issues building it, as for some reason, with my old version
> of autotools, we couldn't get ENABLE_PSLIB in libsrc/Makefile.am to
> trigger and ps.c doesn't get built.
> 
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Warren and Jeremy
> 
> 
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Bob Doan <bd...@si...>