Le 2011-06-23 04:35, Jean Weber a écrit :
I will chime in as well. I would rather see the ODF versions first and the
.pdf only if needed. We are, after all, telling people that we have the best
office suite on earth, so let's prove it! It does work!. I would even go as
far as not publishing any .pdf versions. People needing documentation will
have LibreOffice to read the ODF files. I would only supply .pdf files if it
involved anything with the installation of LibreOffice.
Cheers
Marc
Marc, please see my earlier note about the importance and necessity of
providing PDFs.
--Jean
Hi Jean
We are essentially saying the same thing. For necessary files where the
ODF cannot be read due to the inability of having LibreOffice installed
to read ODF files then falling back on .pdf's is fine. If there is a
need to create a quick and dirty ODF reader, then we should put this to
the dev's as a project -- a "LibreOffice Reader". We should not be
advocating the use of any other format unless we really have to. If our
documents are so important for a user to want to read, then they should
download our product to read our wonderful manuals.
Otherwise, we relegate the ODF (and LibreOffice) to a secondary position
-- there will always be individuals inside our group who will clamour
for a .pdf version to add "universality" to our product line. This is
completely counter-productive. The request for .pdf will never cease and
all of our documentation will be in ODF/PDF versions with no real reason
to fully adopt the ODF format by any user. Worse, corporate adoption of
our product will be hard to get if they will never see the benefits of
using our products if they only read it through .pdf formats for their
convenience. It is difficult to issue accolades to a product that second
guesses itself to its intended user base. If pdf's are so necessary,
then people should be looking for a .pdf office suite as everyone
extolls its virtues.
I don't think Adobe would ever suggest to anyone else to use a different
format for people to read their manuals, they would of course tell all
to download their reader and to then read their wonderful manuals.
We should do the same, as we do have the better format of the two. The
use of .dpf's should be done in a very strategic way and not in a
universally applied fashion.
All of my opinions.
Cheers
Marc
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Marc Paré
http://www.parEntreprise.com
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