Red Hat developer Christopher Blizzard, who maintains the Mozilla packages, has a rather extensive blog on the plans for Open Sourcing Netscape servers that Red Hat recently brought out from AOL. Another interesting Blog is on Evince, a new document viewer to replace GPDF and Gnome Ghostview by Redhat developer Bryan Clark.
Instead of writing all these fancy guis (gpdf, kpdf, evince, etc) for xpdf, someone would add much-needed improvements to the xpdf core and, for example, the ability to fill in pdf forms (and save the result)…
I’m especially looking forward to the NDS server going OSS. OpenLDAP is nice, but this one is even better, especially to fight AD.
Indeed, the fundamental problems with all OSS PS/PDF viewers stem in the fact that GhostScript sucks.
As far as the UIs go, KDE has done an excellent job with KGhostView…
“GhostScript sucks.”
no. it doesnt. you can very well build on top on xpdf or try a better rendering engine.
I think one of the best things that has happened for linux has been the move of Novell to open source and linux. As well as the rapid rise of Mandrake.
Now there will be a stronger competition for the linux enterprise market. And these three will be trying to provide the best solutions making the products more and more competitive.
Evince means supplants, ousts…
Is it that they want to supplant every other viewer ?
Exactly what sucks about Ghostscript?
Speaking of pdf-viewers, Adobe is beta testing Adobe Reader 7 for Linux ( https://adobe.centercode.com/callout/default.html?callid={4EE7B13E-2… ).
Also, check out LWN’s review of pdf viewers: http://lwn.net/Articles/113094/
I have been wondering what was going to happen with this. Hopefully it rocks! Hopefully I can replace all my trees and forests in AD with some good brick and mortar.
I couldn’t access GNOME’s CVS server (only via HTTP gateway). Another day, another time, i guess..