Hi Joe,
Thanks for sharing your view. I have no intention to harass you.
I am not a Sales guy, by the way. J
I have written to you because I catch some of the request that
you made, may have already being engineered into a complete solution.
I will follow up with you on a separate email to address “please
tell me what it is that your product has to offer me.”
My sincere apology if I appeared to be intrusive.
Regards,
Fred
From: Joachim Larsen
[mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, 12 February, 2009 10:36 AM
To: address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] highlight links (not on hover)
Yes their product lists for 4k,
they offered it for 250 towards a good cause.
Thanks Fred, but I am not about to advise my client to pay money for something
that should be free.
Quite frankly the gall of companies charging exorbitant prices for something
they pieced together from opensource software is a bit nauseating. Where
would you be without pdf2swf? Where would your engineers be without having been
able to build on and learn from the work of those before you?
And now you spend your time peddling trinkets on mailing lists. Get a real job.
I've spent the last 2 (two) days looking at actionscript and there are no
technical difficulties there.
What is it exactly that you are selling?
Front End Engineers' (using that term lightly here) time on elements that are
packaged inside the viewer for some strange reason rather than having handles
for _javascript_ calls so it would be easily skinnable and adaptable?
S3 storage that runs at $0.15 per gigabyte month at its priciest? (with no
guarantees that data loss won't happen)
There seems to be no real product, although, there is a service that
involves pdf2swf + DRM wrappers and wrappers for S3's REST API.
Here, take my wallet.
>From my initial request on this mailing list regarding technical information to
solve my problem I have so far received 4 unsolicited sales pitches. Yes I
understand that times are tough, but unless you are scribd and have a
functional community you don't have a product here. You have the model all
backwards. I am sure that you are able to sell your product to lazy and/or
unqualified 'webmasters' or 'content publishers' or whatever they call the
people who felt it was a hard choice choosing between making a career in
business management, realty or IT.
It makes me feel hollow, sad and vaguely wondering how much I could have picked
up in real estate.
Sorry for the rant, please tell me what it is that your product has to offer
me.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Fred <address@hidden> wrote:
Hi Joe,
If your mentioned
"rubbish" can charge 4K USD, I am sure that our solution is not shy
in matching this offer. This can be further negotiated for a good cause, as you
mentioned.
Most important, the solution
fits your need.
If you're interested to explore
further, I can request for a trial.
Thanks.
Regards,
Fred
From: Joachim Larsen [mailto:address@hidden]
Sent: Wednesday, 11 February, 2009 8:23 PM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] highlight links (not on hover)
Is that an offer to donate to a good cause?
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Fred <address@hidden> wrote:
Hi Joe,
Are you also exploring a ready
available solution for your client? I can connect you up with our sales team.
Demo: http://tinyurl.com/8m56la
Regards,
Fred
Hi Guys and Gals,
I stumbled over this thread while trying to solve a problem for a client,
basically they were using ajaxdocumentviewer.com which was rubbish, turns out they
use pdf2swf and wrap some DRM stuff around it, and charge 4k usd for a viewer
which can't handle streaming.
My client is building an online repository for hosting rare free ebooks, some
are available from the gutenberg project but many are not english language
books. This is especially meant for people in poorer regions where access to
print books is unavailable or prohibitively expensive. He has a database and
pdf versions of over 50,000 titles some of which are rendered to pdf files over
100mb in size. Using th pdf2swf with no switches renders this to a 300mb swf
file.
Streaming capabilities are a must.
I have 0 flash experience but not opposed to getting my hands a bit dirty.
What can I do to get this functionality?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Also I apologize if I've breached some point of mail-list netiquette, I am well
versed in this new-fangled hi-tech communication avenue that you young kids
like to play with.
Best Regards,
Joe.
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Anand <address@hidden>
wrote:
Any new updates on the pageflip ?
From: matt cline <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Cc: "address@hidden"
<address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 6:29:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Swftools-common] highlight links (not on hover)
Thanks for hijacking my thread. Roger, since you've been so helpful to
me, here are two players I'll be releasing open source shortly. One is
single frame one is flip, both are load on demand.
http://www.pdf2xml.com/demo/display-magazine.php
http://www.pdf2xml.com/demo/flip/sample.html
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Chris Pugh <address@hidden>
wrote:
You know what I meant ... you come up with the idea, and you post the
source code!
be proactive, just like you have been with the wiki. ;o)
As to viewers that are already out there, well the source code for
many of them is
available to all who care to look. Have you downloaded and started on
one yet?
Cris, well I'm sure he knows exactly what you want to do with his viewer!
Oh, and ever so coincidentally, please don't use CAPS, there's a good
chap. I'm not deaf
you know. Save that, excitable chap that you are Roger, for your
mobile phone conversations.
Chris. [ Exeunt Stage Right ]
PS Way off topic, and verging into the jocular and ribald no less!
Enough List noise I think, yes? ;o)
2009/1/28 Roger Chinchilla <address@hidden>:
> Why don't I start my own viewer and you recommend me to
"copy/reinvent" ones
> that are already out there.....well....thats exactly what I am trying to
do
> with Rusu's viewer....HELLO!!
>
> Roger
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Chris Pugh <address@hidden>
wrote:
>>
>> Likely story! ( Don't you just 'hate' people who are so busy on
their
>> mobile phone,
>> that they can't be bothered to communicate properly? ) :o).
>>
>> .. and why don't you start you *own* viewer Roger? There are so
many out
>> there
>> to copy/reinvent!
>>
>>
>> Chris.
>>
>> 2009/1/28 Roger Chinchilla <address@hidden>:
>> > Sorry I was on my mobile phone and forgot to put a (wink) or
something.
>> > By
>> > the way the Rusu Viewer is looking really good. Anyone know when
it will
>> > be
>> > Open Source?
>> >
>> > Roger
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Chris Pugh <address@hidden>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> *I* didn't. ( In fact, I'd have been very surprised
indeed if you'd
>> >> even tried doing that! ) But maybe you should have
added a
>> >> qualifier, as in '(tic)' or ';o)' somewhere Roger??
>> >>
>> >> On the contrary, pushing your thunbs firmly up on the base of
the brow
>> >> bone under the top of the eye socket ( the
>> >> 'supraorbital foramen' I think ), is supposed to help
with stress and
>> >> relief of migraine. Just watch they don't slip .. ;o)
>> >>
>> >> Chris.
>> >>
>> >> >2009/1/28 Roger Chinchilla <address@hidden>:
>> >> > I just kidding about the holding the finger to your eyes
to make the
>> >> > links
>> >> > pop out. Please don't take it the wrong way.
>> >> >
>> >> > Roger
>> >> >
>> >> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Chris Pugh <address@hidden>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> As I said, links *ARE* buttons. However, you
didn't state you were
>> >> >> using pdf2swf..
>> >> >>
>> >> >> The only command that I know of for an on the fly
change, is,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> pdf2swf -v -s linkcolor= <RRGGBBAA>
file.pdf { where linkcolor
>> >> >> value is in Hex ).
>> >> >>
>> >> >> but this only affects the background color of the
link itself, on
>> >> >> hover, and is not
>> >> >> permanent ( option is sort of misleading
really). Looks like
>> >> >> routine could be
>> >> >> opatched to produce the reverse effect, or else,
it's a two stage
>> >> >> process. Mattias?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Regards,
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Chris.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> 2009/1/28 Matt Cline <address@hidden>:
>> >> >> > Hi chris,
>> >> >> > Thank you for your input. I don't need an
example of manipulating
>> >> >> > buttons
>> >> >> > but do need an example of how to include that
manipulation for
>> >> >> > every
>> >> >> > link on
>> >> >> > a page during pdf2swf sad generation.
>> >> >> > Thank you
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > On Jan 27, 2009, at 3:45 PM, Chris Pugh <address@hidden>
>> >> >> > wrote:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >> Matt,
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> A link is simply a button made up of text.
Therefore whatever
>> >> >> >> you
>> >> >> >> can
>> >> >> >> do with the attributes of a button you can
also do with a 'link',
>> >> >> >> i.e. change almost everything about it's
appearance, and
>> >> >> >> function.
>> >> >> >> Do you need an example?
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Incidentally, I hope Roger's post was
intended to be well tic.
>> >> >> >> It
>> >> >> >> was
>> >> >> >> reminiscent of that old non-pc joke about
how to make a Venitian
>> >> >> >> Blind! Sooner him than I!! ;o)
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Regards,
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Chris.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> 2009/1/27 Roger Chinchilla <address@hidden>:
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Only way I know is these specials
glasses I saw on amazon.com.
>> >> >> >>> They
>> >> >> >>> are
>> >> >> >>> good
>> >> >> >>> for you when you look at the screen a
lot. Another way to make
>> >> >> >>> text
>> >> >> >>> stand
>> >> >> >>> out is, close your eyes, put pressure
on it with your index
>> >> >> >>> finger
>> >> >> >>> for
>> >> >> >>> about
>> >> >> >>> 10 seconds, open your eyes and get
really close to the screen.
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Hope that helps,
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Roger
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> On Jan 27, 2009, at 5:26 PM, matt cline
<address@hidden>
>> >> >> >>> wrote:
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>>> Hello, is there a way to highlight
links w/o having to hover
>> >> >> >>>> them
>> >> >> >>>> to
>> >> >> >>>> see
>> >> >> >>>> the highlights(so their easier to
spot in the swfs)? Thank
>> >> >> >>>> you.
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >
>> >
>
>
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