Yeah. I’m just worried when extractor fails they put it in discard pile, or human pile which’ll delay my application by a lot.

Ocular shows a warning ⚠️ this file requires new version of adobe acrobat DC, press ok to download latest version or see your system administrator.

Installing it is such a hassle, and booting is too, I used to just close while saving state, but that messes up the time in VM and it leads to problems… Is there any light weight basic windows type VM you use? Or is it the generic iso?

I know it’s adobe problem. Because they deprecated it in PDF 2.0, last support is in 1.7, but they have continued using 1.7 with adobe extension 1 to 1.7 with Adobe extension 8. So it’s like they have their own branch of PDF versions. But most people don’t care, and here a government agency is using that and it’s not accessible for linux.

Wine needs 32bit libraries that’s why I’m not using it. I read the snap package handles the wine part for us, so I tried that in VM but didn’t work. I’ll try to follow your suggestion in VM and see if it’ll work.

Some parts already have filled text that are dynamic fields (but without the support it becomes fixed text). So I can’t write over it. And Firefox doesn’t recognize them as fields, otherwise I could delete the part. It’s so frustrating.

Draw seems to disregard the form fields, so I could probably fill it in Firefox, and use draw to edit the auto calculated fields. It’ll work for printed forms, but if any org uses pdf fields extractor wouldn’t that be a problem?

Thank you.

From my interactions with the people that’ll fund this. It does look like they want me to just develop this. But my advisor has not done this kind of software development grants. And the people I talked to might also not know what their organization’s legal requirements are put in contract. That’s why I want to know what kind of language I should use in proposal so that it can be used as a point of discussion if someone from their organization says we can’t do that. Instead of them just assuming I’ll hand over everything.

Yeah, but my program does not have such things in the code. And if you add it, GPL will make it so that they have to share to code, so people will be able to tell if they try it, right?

Thank you. I’m a PhD student, so I do not have access to Lawyers that I can ask, and it probably will cost me money to get their opinion if I seek professional lawyers.

If whatever changes/improvement they make is available for everyone to use, I consider that contributions to the open source.

I don’t mind them making money off of it, as long as they contribute to the open source community by improving it, contributing upstream, or using it in other systems and keeping those open source as well. I want other people to benefit from the effort I made and published, and if someone wants to improve it, I want others to benefit from there too.

I don’t want the case like insulin in US, where the first invention is free because they wanted everyone to benefit from it. But now it’s super expensive because of the incremental advances other corps did that are patented. And the free version is no longer viable to use without those incremental improvements.

I’m fine as long as it is used in other GPL projects. I just don’t want them to take this, use it on some proprietary code and make money/mine data and other things and not contribute to upstream or open source in general.

I hadn’t thought about the network usages, I though GPL covered it. So, is AGPL everything GPL has plus software service from network? If yes, then I will use that license. EDIT: Saw that AGPLv3 is indeed GPLv3 + the network thing.

Further points:

I also have a lot of other libraries and programs that I have developed and published with GPLv3 license, so I also want to integrate them with the new program. Since I don’t want to reinvent the wheel for things I have already done. And I’ll probably want to integrate this software on things I might make in the future.

For adding with Firefox or similar apps on laptop. I have another program that monitors clipboard (or selection), can filter with regex and run custom commands. So simply copying the url to the video can trigger the curl command to add to playlist.

Making it in the phone is the hard part. I don’t know much about android dev so any help would be appreciated. I did find somewhere you can make a simple app with protocol definition for sharing, and on share to the app, run the request to the server in the local network.

I also want to implement file share, if you share a file to that app from local storage, it could upload to the server and mpv can stream it. Since I have used the basic tcp connection, I couldn’t do that in this version either.

Seq will only print one sequence, though. The program’s focus is discontinuous range. Something like: 1:2:10,20:2:30

{1…10…2}

Wow, that’s nice to know. I guess my program will at least make it easier since you can type it in a more humane way, but not essential.

Thank you. I did think there might be a way.

My program is basically doing printf "%d\n" {{1..3},{7..8}} in that case. Can bash do step? like 1:2:10 would be 1,3,5,7,9

I used planner recently https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/Planner?action=show&redirect=Planner

I also searched a lot z and didn’t find good options. It works, but I don’t like the way it looked.

Can you customize the buttons directly? I have xp-pen, it works by default but the buttons are not what I want, I have been using xp-pen provided driver-app for customizing buttons and screen and such. One time it had a bug that was pretty bad. I’d prefer to not use it if I can customize without it.

You know how people say “Devil you know is better than God you don’t”?

Excel is that Devil people know. It’s not the best tool for a lot of stuffs but it let’s people do things.

I saw a co-worker generate sequence for formula in excel for another cell in excel. They wanted to do average of all January data, instead of averageif/sumif/countif etc, they generated a sequence a1+a13+a25… And used excels’ drag down thing to make the formula. I’m like who could even verify it.