On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Simon Phipps <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 25 Jun 2011, at 08:33, Ian Lynch wrote: > > > Manfred wrote: > > > > "I still believe that PDF is the best solution to distribute final > versions > > of text (and maybe other office) documents." > > > > I'd say yes if they are likely to be printed on paper, no if it is only > > likely to be read from a screen. > > I disagree. Once a document no longer needs editing (and this is a frequent > need in daily life - think purchase receipt, invoice, insurance schedule and > so on) it needs to be provided in an electronic format that cannot be easily > altered. PDF plays this role, ODF doesn't. > No, but HTML does. More to the point, chm files also are build for read-only. Surely they are more microsoft based, but even Read (activity from the OLPC/Sugar), had to add a webkit renderer for another popular format -- epub. Which of course is done for read-only porpouses. So a bigger discussion than demanding PDF reader, might be to upgrade the very old HTML renderer in LibreOffice to something like webkit. > > S. > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > 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 > > -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] 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
