Initially the re-lab project was going to work on reverse-engineering of Microsoft Publisher file format for the Scribus team. The thing is that the files generator/inspector (that is, me) is on Linux and doesn’t feel justified to install Windows and use it. And MSP knowingly doesn’t run under WINE reliably (I haven’t managed to run InDesign either). While we are looking for a workaround, there could be some other similar projects to do.
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Monthly Archive for August, 2010
Back in June I expressed some doubts regarding viability of Luminance HDR (neé Qtpfsgui) in the review of v2.0.0. Unfortunately it looks like the doubts turn out to be true. A couple of weeks ago all project’s admins (for some reason I’m still among them) were contacted by SourceForge regarding breach of contract (selling software from SF pages is prohibited). The last official project’s maintainer never replied, the problem was resolved by previous maintainer.
Do we have to care, if Luminance HDR compiles and runs? Yes and no. Here is why.
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