From: Jonathan Walther <krooger@debian.org>

I know of a situation. Let's say that it's hypothetical. Someone got access to some extremely old and rare books, and photographed them. The photos were scanned and distributed on CDROM by a company. The owners of the photos say the scans constitute stolen property, and after years of legal action, stopped the company from distributing the scans.

We can and should process the scans privately. Please make them (if the scans were not entirely hypothetical) available privately, only to people who are willing to help. Remember, Hershey fonts were in public domain but the file format was not. The solution was to convert the data to another file format. How that info could be exploited here? I would like to have a copy of every scan. If I develop a solution, the scans may not be available when the solution is ready. That would only waste our time and give false hopes. Best regards, Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software