--- On Thu, 6/23/11, Marc Paré <m...@marcpare.com> wrote:
> From: Marc Paré <m...@marcpare.com> > Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] New "LibreOffice Reader" Eliminates Need for "PDF > Reader" > To: discuss@documentfoundation.org > Date: Thursday, June 23, 2011, 3:32 PM > Hi Antonio > > Le 2011-06-23 18:05, Antonio Olivares a écrit : > > > > Marc, > > > > Idea sounds good, but there is also another competitor > out there to the famous PDF : > > > > http://djvu.sourceforge.net/ > > > > How about adding editing/viewing djvu compatibility to > LibreOffice too? > > > > I for one (except under windows) use > evince/okular/xpdf or other free viewers out there as > opposed to using Acrobat Reader :) Having LibreOffice > open word/excel/powerpoint/pdf is excellent, but adding djvu > will also enhance it and make it even better (others don't > have this capability). But keep the full suite, don't > worry about a reader some folks already have a odt/doc/xls > viewer on the windows side: > > > > http://www.officeviewers.com/ > > > > Someone mentioned this, I think that it would be not > necessary to ask programmer to make a reader? Doing > more work when other similar software exists? > > Unless if that software is (NOT FREE)/(OPEN SOURCE), > there would be little to no gains if a LibreOffice Reader is > created? > > > > BTW > > I am a LibreOffice user not a programmer and happily > use it on Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. > > > > Just my $0.02. > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Antonio > > > I also use Okular, although, I have found some cases where > it would not > print some .pdf's correctly. Djvu is neat, however, it is > still > struggling trying to make headway in being adopted. > > I think it was mentioned that there were at one point over > 100 million > LibreOffice/OOo users. If we were to develop our own > "LibreOffice > Reader" we would already have 100 million potential users > for our > product. Not only that, the LibreOffice Reader would be > compatible with > the LibreOffice suite and possibly code. This would give > the LibO Reader > a good start. > > Cheers > > Marc > > -- @Mark & others I like the idea, don't get me wrong. But sadly it is hard for developers out there to make just a viewer when some other folks have that :( already. It would be nice if more people, sed -i 's|people|users|g' out there would use the OpenDocument format (*.odt) and not pdf to share documents, then the idea would become more intriguing. This new viewer would have to compete against those viewers that exist plus Google Docs :(, which I don't know if it* supports OpenDocument Format (*.odt) files? Sadly, it is *very difficult* to change people's minds when it comes to document standards and formats. I agree with folks that mention that Adobe has become a **bloated monster** that used to be lean and excellent, and with its increasing bloat there also comes security issues and constant updates :( My $0.04 (previous $0.02 + this $0.02) don't add sales tax please :) Regards, Antonio -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
