"John Springer" <john.springer@geaugalibrary.info> wrote:
I wouldn't dismiss them as untrustworthy. I had no trouble whatsoever with either PDF file.
Who mentioned trustworthiness? Not I! I asked:
Would you sign up with a vendor who sends 1Mb of broken[1] PDFs to a mailing list?
I expect they're perfectly trustworthy, but I'm questioning their support for free and open source software (like Koha) and their competence with email: they appear to be using Adobe PDF (which isn't free software and I remember Sklyarov); and when someone attaches a binary file to an email, it expands by about 30% and when that goes to a mailing list, it's sending an unrequested binary file plus that extra 30% to potentially hundreds subscribers. Borders on spam. It's hopefully just a little accident, but it seemed worth questioning just in case... I'm tired of good hardworking free software firms being overlooked in favour of aggressive self-promoters because prospective customers don't notice that mailbombing lists with binary files produced with non-free software is a bit bloody strange. Sorry for highlighting that it's strange. Hope that clarifies, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237