On 24/06/2011 03:59, Marc Paré wrote: The initial use of the
"LibreOffice Reader" would be just a plain reader, the challenge after
this would be to try to build as much document fidelity into it as
possible. Again, with the hopes to rival .pdf fidelity. Maybe once all
the devs put their heads together, they may come up with some way to
do this. Let's not forget that the Djvu people accomplished this to
some extent. If we were to work at it we could surprise everyone.
There is always the possibility of submitting any changes to the ODF,
that could enhance the formats, through the possible channels at the
ISO and OASIS of which we are members.
As Andrea states, the point about PDF is that it 'locks in' the format
of a document, allowing it to be displayed or printed everywhere as
the user intended. All other formats created by word processors,
including MS Office and LibO, will display and print differently on
different computers, depending for example on the specific printer a
user has installed. I doubt that this is something that could readily
be fixed by tweaking ODF, it's fundamental to the way all word
processors work. I also believe that any diversion of scarce DEV
effort would inevitably move the focus further away from fixing the
many bugs still in LibO, which would be counter-productive.
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Right now LibreOffice is capable of creating PDF files. Which leads me
to believe that creating a reader for ODF and at some point giving ODF
some of the capabilities of PDF couldn't be all that difficult.
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