On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:12:23 -0400, Alexandro Colorado
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On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:42:43 -0400, Robert M. Yannetta""
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OpenOffice.org is a great product to export documents to PDF, but why
doesn't the product open PDFs for us to read?
because it lacks the postscript render engine which is not the same and
also there is no binding to the engine of OOo yet.
there are some ideological reasons as PDF has been seen to portrait
secure un-editable documents. There are also legal issues one of the
famous one was when a russian developer exposed the code to edit PDF and
he was sent to Jail under NSA law. This got a lot of press in the past I
guess you can google for thsi case and get something rather quick.
Sorry it wasnt NSA law, it was DMCA which btw just got more extreme.
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Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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