Re: Bug#35156: The TIFF specification.
Josip Rodin <jrodin@public.srce.hr> writes:
> [ note that I'm not currently subscribed to -devel, so please CC: ]
>
> On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:32:07PM +0000, Marco Budde wrote:
> > > I've downloaded it from ftp://ftp.onshore.com/pub/libtiff/TIFF6.ps.Z, and
> > > these are the statistics:
> > >
> > > % wc -c TIFF6.ps.gz
> > > 177280 TIFF6.ps.gz
> 1) It's too big. YMMVBIDGAF.
How about bzip2?
By the way, xbooks is 15 MB compressed I think, so 180Kb isn´t that
much if its good.
> 2) It's not bundled with upstream libTIFF source - I guess there's a
> reason.
> 3) It has a license that sure doesn't count as a Free Software one.
> Maybe it's a Free Documentation one, but I don't know, and I don't care.
Hmm, if its not free thats bad, but if its free documentation I see no
reason not to include it.
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
PS: Maybe you can strip fonts out of the ps file.
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