On 2005-12-03, Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/2/05, John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Plugin both need a local installation of OOo, they just redirect the >> > created window into a browser window instead of having it placed on the >> > desktop. They do not render OOo documents by themselves. >> >> Ok. But is that a problem? IIRC, that's how the Acrobat Reader and other >> plugins work as well.
> You are technically right - that's how the Adobe Reader works. However, the > Adobe Reader isn't a 50 MB + download, and a massive 100 MB + install, and > doesn't take a lot of time to load or a lot of RAM to run. You're right -- Acrobat Reader (7.0.5) is a svelt 20MB download and only requires about 55MB to install... :-) > If there was a *SMALL* ODF-Reader that could work like the Adobe Reader > plugin, that would work. but having to have the whole office suite on the > computer kinda defeats the purpose of viewing the file in the browser. Agreed, a simple viewer would be nice. But installing OOo to view .odt files is no worse than having to install MS-Office to view .doc, .xls, and .ppt files -- cheaper too! > Instaed of comparing the OOo browser plugins to Adobe Reader, it would be > more like if you had to have the entire Adobe Creative Suite, or at least > the Adobe Acrobat running in order to view a PDF in the browser. > AbiWord is about the smallest thing out there that renders ODF files - and > that's only Word Processing files- not spreadsheets or presentationsor > anything, and to my knowledge, it doesn't have a browser plugin. No, I don't think so, but on linux at least you can use mozplugger to put the abiword window inside the browser. This also works with xpdf (1.2MB) for viewing pdf files as well. I don't know that there's anything similar in Windows, though. -- John ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
