--- On Thu, 6/23/11, Marc Paré <m...@marcpare.com> wrote:
> From: Marc Paré <m...@marcpare.com> > Subject: [tdf-discuss] New "LibreOffice Reader" Eliminates Need for "PDF > Reader" > To: discuss@documentfoundation.org > Date: Thursday, June 23, 2011, 2:40 PM > OK, this is just a teaser to entice > people into a discussion of the following proposal. > > There is talk on the documentation list of the formats made > available to users of our documents (manuals, reference > books, etc). These for now are in .odt (ODF) and .pdf > (Adobe) and possibly .html (being discussed on the > documentation list). > > The purpose of this particular thread is NOT to continue > the documentation thread on the merits of providing > particular formats. If you are interested in taking this up, > it is already being discussed on the documentation list. > > This thread is really about proposing, to the devs, the > possibility of creating a "LibreOffice Reader" similar to > the "Adobe .pdf Reader". The idea is that, we are in a > particularly advantageous position of providing an excellent > popular office suite with a solid and well documented format > (ODF) and, if we were to promote a "quick and dirty" > "LibreOffice Reader", very much like the "Adobe Acrobat > Reader", whose sole purpose is to provide the ability to > "read" ".odt" files, there would be no need to carry .pdf > formatted files. > > I would like to propose the following for discussion: > > The "LibreOffice Reader" would have the following > characteristics: > > * small footprint > * capable of reading ODF formatted files ONLY and .odt in > particular > * only capable of reading and form filling, NO editing > capabilities (these are left to the expertise of the > LibreOffice suite) > * be able to interpret any of the LibreOffice > "highlighting" effects and "weblinking" abilities > * as much as possible code should not stray too far from > the LibreOffice code in order to avoid a new divergent > branch of software > * TDF adopt "LibreOffice Reader" as its first secondary > software project > > If, such a project were adopted, LibreOffice could then be > adapted in such a way as to complement the "LibreOffice > Reader", very much like the relationship of the Adobe > Acrobat list of software ("Acrobat X Pro" etc.) and their > relationship with "Acrobat Reader". The LibreOffice suite > could have added functionality that would be compatible with > the "LibreOffice Reader" and offer interested users, an > opensource alternative to the .pdf format. > > Cheers > > Marc Marc, Idea sounds good, but there is also another competitor out there to the famous PDF : http://djvu.sourceforge.net/ How about adding editing/viewing djvu compatibility to LibreOffice too? I for one (except under windows) use evince/okular/xpdf or other free viewers out there as opposed to using Acrobat Reader :) Having LibreOffice open word/excel/powerpoint/pdf is excellent, but adding djvu will also enhance it and make it even better (others don't have this capability). But keep the full suite, don't worry about a reader some folks already have a odt/doc/xls viewer on the windows side: http://www.officeviewers.com/ Someone mentioned this, I think that it would be not necessary to ask programmer to make a reader? Doing more work when other similar software exists? Unless if that software is (NOT FREE)/(OPEN SOURCE), there would be little to no gains if a LibreOffice Reader is created? BTW I am a LibreOffice user not a programmer and happily use it on Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. Just my $0.02. Regards, Antonio -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted