Hi John & Luis!
OOo on PalmOS (maybe even pocketPC? :-D) would really be *neat*. Maybe you
should sugest it to the OOo Community Council.
SC
On 4/24/05, John W. Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Luis Sales wrote:
> > Helo,
> >
> > I would like to know if there is any idea of making a version for PDA,
> > in my case for Palm OS, or if there some way of viewing and editing
> > OpenOffice files in Palm OS.
> >
> > Thank you and continue with the good work, I can�t wait to download
> > the 2.0 version.
>
> At present, the best option is to hold your nose, use the file formats
> of Microsoft Office, and then use Documents To Go.
>
> If you wish only to read the document on the PDA, then, under OOo 2.0,
> you should be able to use save the file as a PDF and then read it with
> Adobe Reader for PalmOS. Under OOo 1.x.x, there are severe problems with
> this strategy.
>
> OOo can also write a read-only file to the AportisDoc format for PalmOS.
> But the AportisDoc software and the company that wrote it are dead, and
> the OOo AportisDoc feature has some bugs.
>
> Certain design characteristics of PalmOS (which are there for very good
> reasons) make it extremely difficult -- a practical impossibility -- to
> port a program as large as OOo to PalmOS Garnet or any older version of
> PalmOS. PalmOS Cobalt (formerly known as PalmOS 6) may improve that, and
> PalmSource has also announced their intent to do a yet more
> sophisticated operating system, which will be PalmOS on the outside and
> Linux on the inside. So there should be a long-term solution.
> --
> John W. Kennedy
> "...if you had to fall in love with someone who was evil, I can see why
> it was her."
> -- "Alias"
>
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