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Originally Posted by kusmi
I think so too: Making things configurable should be the *last* resort, not the first one... if iRex can make pdfs rendering fast and nice, there is no need to have an user-configurable option...
just my 2 cents...
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Sure,
But consider that I have a lot of scanned pdf files - you could have too - and I don't need a fancy algorythm to do the deposterisation, because those are text only (even if scanned in colour, etc.)So the computer will be able to differentiate between scanned text and real images? No way, that is my two cents...
So please Irex, rather give user-configurable option, and I don't think it should be the last step in development otherwise it will never be ready, because a software is never ready.
And if you can not add economically features to the existing settings application then I suppose a new settings application could be easily added or something
(or what about an icon saying: draft mode?)
I am also developing software and never found difficult to add 1 or 2 more tickboxes or something.
Otherwise there are less user-configurable options on the iLiad than on an average mobile phone, do you think this is right? Everybody truly thinks that the system should be developed for dummies only? (sorry for the word) And what about the rest? shall we suffer just because others are not able to reset their devices and go back to default settings? Is it democratic to give no options to the user at all? Is it politically correct?
I don't understand the philosophy behind it, if you give an option somewhere in the settings it will help some people, while it does not take ANYTHING away from other people so why do they complain?
Why should you optimalize an algorythm to work faster, when in most of the time you don't actually need the deposterizer algorythm, so you could just switch it off. There will be always situations when you can not eliminate the trade off between nice rendering and fast rendering.
Also you could save valuable devlopment time for something else (Power management?) and/or produce an earlier update IMHO.