Neil Williams wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:31:30 +0200 > Merciadri Luca <luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote: > > > > Anti-features like locking and password protection are not supported > and, if implemented, could make the free software tools appear non-free > by restricting the functionality available to the user. In this case, > the needs of the user outweigh the restrictive tendencies of the writer > of the original format. There are no other formats in Debian (AFAICT) > which try to prevent only some documents of that format from being > printed. Removal or ignoring the addition of code to support such > restrictions is a feature in free software IMHO. All PDF's should be > printable by free software. > > Thanks. I can understand this point of view, but, sometimes, such anti-features can be activated for safety reasons. This is the first time I have to do it, but it was necessary, at least until friday.
Thanks, -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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