On 06/25/2011 03:37 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Simon Phipps <si...@webmink.com> wrote: > >> >> On 25 Jun 2011, at 08:33, Ian Lynch wrote: >> >> > Manfred wrote: >> > >> > "I still believe that PDF is the best solution to distribute final >> versions >> > of text (and maybe other office) documents." >> > >> > I'd say yes if they are likely to be printed on paper, no if it is only >> > likely to be read from a screen. >> >> I disagree. Once a document no longer needs editing (and this is a frequent >> need in daily life - think purchase receipt, invoice, insurance schedule and >> so on) it needs to be provided in an electronic format that cannot be easily >> altered. PDF plays this role, ODF doesn't. >> > > No, but HTML does. More to the point, chm files also are build for > read-only. Surely they are more microsoft based, but even Read (activity > from the OLPC/Sugar), had to add a webkit renderer for another popular > format -- epub. Which of course is done for read-only porpouses. > > So a bigger discussion than demanding PDF reader, might be to upgrade the > very old HTML renderer in LibreOffice to something like webkit. ... This might be of interest:
http://andreasgal.com/2011/06/15/pdf-js/ [pdf.js: Rendering PDF with HTML5 and JavaScript] http://blog.mozilla.com/cjones/2011/07/03/pdf-js-first-milestone/ [pdf.js reached its first milestone] https://wiki.mozilla.org/PDF.js Perhaps that could be modifed/integrated to also view .odt etc? -- 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
