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[Benjamin Eltzner <b.eltzner@xxxxxx>]

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Hi,

I have so far been very content with your management of the project,
Adam. I see the value of an extension of scope to other formats
(though I almost exclusively use PDFs), however I am somewhat torn
concerning the prospective uncertainty connected to a change of
project leadership.

In any case I will naturally continue maintaining Debian and Ubuntu
packages, unless this is explicitly unwanted.

On a rather humorous note, a change as the one planned might encourage
changing the project name. Unfortunately, the usual suspects, such as
QView, QViewer, QtView, QtViewer seem to be taken, so I suggest "QDV",
the Qt Document Viewer. ;-)

Summing up: I don't use ps and djvu, but I think widening the scope of
the program in this direction is sensible in principle.

Best,
Benjamin

Am 13.12.2012 17:38, schrieb Adam Reichold:
> Hello,
> 
> Just to add some context to this: qpdfview's code is currently 
> designed to be tightly integrated but straightforward and simple 
> rather than reuseable and extendable. IMHO, this would very much
> alter the aim and scope of this project.
> 
> And while I agree that this is interesting functionality and I am
> sure that the code base can be refactored in the necessary places,
> I am personally not interested in treating these broader use case
> and maintaining the the interface layers needed to support them.
> 
> Since this seems to be more about my personal interests than
> technical feasibility, I would not try to stop this if there is an
> strong interest in it by several people. I would rather just step
> down as maintainer and let the project continue in this direction
> with a new maintainer after the next release. (Of course, Alexander
> has in a sense applied for job. :-))
> 
> So please use this opportunity to voice your opinion.
> 
> Best regards, Adam.
> 
> P.S.: I find PostScript support rather unimportant compared to
> DjVu since PS-to-PDF conversion should be lossless. Am I missing
> something?
> 
> Am 13.12.2012 14:48, schrieb Александр Волков:
>> Hello,
> 
>> It will be good to add support for other formats, such as PS and 
>> Djvu. There doesn't exist universal document viewer based on qt.
>> On the other hand most of qpdfview's code doesn't depend on
>> Poppler and it would be sorry to use it in limited context.
> 
>> I can definitely add PS support. All interested are welcome.
> 
>> Best regards, Alexander Volkov
> 
> 

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