01-12-2005
Who are we supposed to then feel sorry for? The IRS- for lost "revenues," or for the Big Company's?
Personally, I feel if the Big Company's do this for tax relief, thats great news for them. They spent the money developing the patents, the IRS did none except stick out their palms demanding people cough up money.
IBM has some 40k patents, them kicking out a mere 500, whether or not it will advance open source may be a good thing. IBM has been a strong supporter of LINUX development for sometime. It has definitely helped attract more eyeballs.
Big Blue, not the company it once was, still has set a strong historic mark on computing. They could be much more of a M$ than M$, if they had not released the PC architecture. Without IBM doing what they had, M$ would not be where they are today, since M$ only develops software.
Had Apple followed IBM, they may have gained a much stronger footing then they have today.
I wonder if the releasing of patents is a rub to SCO.
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ps_add_pdflink
PS_ADD_PDFLINK(3) 1 PS_ADD_PDFLINK(3)
ps_add_pdflink - Adds link to a page in a second pdf document
SYNOPSIS
bool ps_add_pdflink (resource $psdoc, float $llx, float $lly, float $urx, float $ury, string $filename, int $page, string $dest)
DESCRIPTION
Places a hyperlink at the given position pointing to a second pdf document. Clicking on the link will branch to the document at the given
page. The first page in a document has number 1.
The hyperlink's source position is a rectangle with its lower left corner at ($llx, $lly) and its upper right corner at ($urx, $ury). The
rectangle has by default a thin blue border.
The note will not be visible if the document is printed or viewed but it will show up if the document is converted to pdf by either Acrobat
Distillertm or Ghostview.
PARAMETERS
o $psdoc
- Resource identifier of the postscript file as returned by ps_new(3).
o $llx
- The x-coordinate of the lower left corner.
o $lly
- The y-coordinate of the lower left corner.
o $urx
- The x-coordinate of the upper right corner.
o $ury
- The y-coordinate of the upper right corner.
o $filename
- The name of the pdf document to be opened when clicking on this link.
o $page
- The page number of the destination pdf document
o $dest
- The parameter $dest determines how the document is being viewed. It can be fitpage, fitwidth, fitheight, or fitbbox.
RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure.
SEE ALSO
ps_add_launchlink(3), ps_add_locallink(3), ps_add_weblink(3).
PHP Documentation Group PS_ADD_PDFLINK(3)