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danmbox / briss2

Fork of Briss (http://briss.sourceforge.net/), an application for cropping PDF files
GNU General Public License v3.0
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More docs needed #1

Closed fatso83 closed 9 years ago

fatso83 commented 10 years ago

Due to the low activity on the Briss SF page, I thought about starting my own fork, and saw yours while researching. Now I am a bit unsure of whether to fork yours to contribute or fork off the original repo, as there is very little info on what is new and what features you have contributed to the application.

Adding a README.md with an overview of the additional features and basic usage would help people finding the project. Even better would be a wiki section.

danmbox commented 10 years ago

The features are summarized in the briss sourceforge patch section (http://sourceforge.net/p/briss/patches/). I tried that before forking, but the maintainer was unresponsive.

You are right; I was planning on doing a point release, adding a blog post etc.

What do you want to implement?

fatso83 commented 10 years ago

Thanks for the reponse. Basically I would like to do these

danmbox commented 10 years ago

Hi, I have added a minimal changelog and a new version number. I'm willing to merge pull requests from contributors

Regarding the settings on the command line, did you notice the crop-string feature? You can get a crop-string (describing the exact setup of the crop rectangles) from the GUI menu, or make one up yourself once you understand the syntax (described in the --help text). Then you can enter crop-strings from the command line (run the jar with --help as README-briss2.txt advises to see how) or from the GUI menu.

fatso83 commented 10 years ago

That seems great, and more or less exactly what I intended. Are you pulling in changes from the original project as well?

danmbox commented 10 years ago

I don't think any changes are forthcoming from the original project, but that of course may change...

The only thing that I am missing is Undo / Redo (for the times when you mess up a long sequence of splits while setting up the crop rectangles in the GUI). I wrote the code back in February but promptly lost it to a crash.

OTOH, I will accept pull requests for whatever seems useful (and consistent with the existing code and UX).