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On RAR and PDF Files Attachment in Forum
odie:
Hi,
I have noticed that the forum does not allow rar (winrar zipped formats) and PDF (Portable File Format) as attachments.
I was wondering if these 2 files could be enabled?
rar files usually does alot better compressions (resulting in smaller files), whilst pdf files allow views of documents exactly the way u want it, disallow copying (if protection enabled) plus its cross-platform.
Thanks!
Mattn:
please use bz2 and openoffice files - pdf is nice, but we are developing an open source game, so why should we use pdf where you can only extract stuff if you know how? rar is not really free.
odie:
--- Quote from: Mattn on May 28, 2009, 08:13:08 am ---please use bz2 and openoffice files - pdf is nice, but we are developing an open source game, so why should we use pdf where you can only extract stuff if you know how? rar is not really free.
--- End quote ---
bz2? Oh, ok, np with me. :) Just tot its nice to have rar. Dun worry. i can work wif existing zip and bz2 if need. :D
pdf? Oh? I did not realize that pdf is not accepted in open source, since i saw in the NSIS script that the documentation will be sorta in *.pdf format..... thought that will be also same here.....
(PS: pdf for extracting stuff which only i know how? huh?)
vedrit:
Why isnt PDF accepted in open-source? The viewer, atleast, is free
Destructavator:
I agree - many free PDF viewers and readers are out there. Linux has many, and even on Windows alone, there are alternatives to "A-Bloat-Be" Software (such as Foxit PDF Reader, much faster and cleaner than Acrobat with less bloat).
Also, many open-source programs can create and edit PDFs, such as PDFCreator - a virtual printer - and OpenOffice can also put a document into a PDF.
Edit: Regarding file compression, I prefer 7zip, the format is very nice, free, and the free utility to make them also packs/unpacks almost anything (including .zip, .rar, and numerous others).
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