Gary Schnabl wrote:
Jim Harris wrote:
Clearly, Jean, those are irrefutable statements.
However, I still don't see how a PDF on an OOo CD (or for an OOo
user) does anything that a native OOo document does not do at least
as well (except, of course, increase Adobe's dominance).
Further, the OOo files (and many other standard formats) have the
huge advantage of editability (e.g. changing font size then printing
for readers with vision impairment) with free tools. Of course, this
requires that there is available at least one workstation that can
read the OOo installation instructions. For the case where this is
not true, the installation instructions (only) could be in PDF (or
text/Unicode, or ODF, or even M$ Word .doc) so they could be read
(and even edited), again with free tools, before OOo is installed.
Did I miss a communication explaining any advantages of PDF?
Jim
There is an advantage of having both forms (PDF and ODT) of the docs
being readily available. Realizing that there are different strokes
for different folks, what is bad about offering choices? Why should
one go through an intermediate step with OOo, just to produce the PDF
version? Somehow, that resembles needlessly reinventing wheels.
Besides, I detect a distinct bias against proprietary software vendors
in the above post. There are now plenty of other software vendors in
addition to Adobe for producing/reading PDFs. MS now has provisions
for doing that in its Office Professional 2007. Even freeware apps can
create or read PDFs. I find that making a (socialistic or
anti-freemarket?) dig against Adobe (or MS or whatever) adds much to
the situation.
I, for one, do not despise having to actually ***pay*** for the
software I use if it isn't available elsewhere for free. And even if
free versions are available, I still purchase some proprietary or
shareware apps. BTW, not everybody produces useful goods and services
for free.
my bad!
edit: I find that making a (socialistic or anti-freemarket?) dig against
Adobe (or MS or whatever) _does not add_ much to the situation.
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Gary Schnabl
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