that´s the point

i absolutely agree with marco



On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:44 PM, M. Fioretti <mfiore...@nexaima.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 16:47:18 PM -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:
> > From: "Gaspar NЗЯez" <nuroga...@gmail.com>
> >
> > > I think that at least a good reader should be available
> >
> > Published documents should be in a published format like the
> > Portable Document Format (PDF).
>
> Why?
>
> If people need to torture themselves by really, routinely _editing_
> ODF documents on a tiny screen, without keyboards, that's their
> problem, I agree.
>
> But the sooner we get over the PDF cultural stage/limit, the better it
> will be for open government/open data (and other things too, but these
> are the most important ones). Good ODF readers are necessary to get
> rid of PDFs, that is to make official public documents immediately
> readable on every platform. In a format that allows users to
> immediately check internal structures as formulas in spreadsheets, and
> is also better than PDF as it can adapt much better to different
> screen sizes.
>
> Yes, ePub would do too, at least for text-only documents. In any case,
> PDF as the format for documents to be published should disappear in
> many practical cases because of its limits.
>
> Marco F.
> http://mfioretti.com
>
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