Re: [Fsf-friends] Re: PDF issues

Tathagata Banerjee wrote:

cumbersome for sustained use. dipankar das's book was created using microsoft office on microsoft windows, and pdf-ed directly from there because the fonts were windows-specific. this is the problem that faces us now - whether we should own up to this or not.

I think there is no shame in mentioning the method in which the book was created. Bengali (and other Indic scripts) are at a transitional stage in Freedom.

Just as the initial Free tools were created on non-free platforms till they became "self-hosting", I think the use of non-free document creation tools is perfectly ok as long as we have a public plan or intention to move toward Free tools as and when that happens.

- Sandip