On Sat, 27 May 2006, David J. Orman wrote: > Unfortunately, that really isn't a good solution. The whole point of using > PDFs is just about anybody can read them, and they look the same on whatever > platform. Unfortunately, that leaves Solaris x86 out in the pasture. The > problem with going with some read-only ODF format, is it won't be readable by > the vast majority of people out there (Windows/Mac users), because 99% of them > will have some form of MS Office installed, and *not* OO/SO. This is how the > MS monopoly works, and it's also how the Adobe monopoly works. There isn't > much we can do about it, unless somebody has an idea how to get ODF a sudden > 99% market share across all platforms. ;)
I take your point, but this is very much a chicken-and-egg problem. Adobe's monopoly didn't appear overnight. Acrobat became popular as more people used it to distribute documents. Perhaps the same trick would work for ODF. > Why don't we get one of the free pdf alternatives ported and running (maybe > it's already done?) I haven't run FreeBSD in a while, but way back when I'm > sure I remember using something other than Adobe Acrobat to read/create PDFs. We have gpdf, but I don't know how "good" it is, and ISTR something called evince (sp?) is the way forward in that arena... -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
