I am a new convert from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice, and I must say that I
have completely made the shift, from using OpenOffice, to creating document in
the open document format. I made an effort to disseminate the application to my
students as well, believing in the creed of the opensource community in general.
I do have a suggestion for improving the OpenOffice suite. I tried to use the
link to Feature Implementation, but didn't quite understand how to do it, so I
opted to email instead - implying that I am no computer programmer, so pardon
this email, as I know it would take up resources and time for you guys to read.
Since one of the goals of OpenOffice is to become a (the most) powerful
productivity suite, maybe one of the applications which should be included in
the suite is a PDF viewer/reader/editor. Since Writer can export to PDF,
perhaps OO should have a PDF application of its own. As I understand, PDF is a
preferred format especially for business and commercial document sharing, so I
guess it would really make OO a productive and power office suite if it had
one. I myself prefer this format when students pass online papers for a number
of reasons. That way, there wouldn't be a need to have a separate application
to view PDF documents you are working on.
I think there's really no need to elaborate it as I would think most readers
would understand the point in all of this.
PS
I have not really done a thorough search, if in case this feature is already
available in OO 2.2 and I am the only one not knowledgeable about it, so pardon
me. I would however appreciate it if I could be informed of the latter. Thanks.
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