Hi :) Most places that have any kind of leaflet, posters or documentation to download want to have some control over the way it looks. Sadly there is not an adequate Open Document Format so people use PDF. Since PDF is so widely used it forces everyone to use it. I don't think we can make a stand against that right now. We have to use PDF or else marginalise ourselves.
Most places that do have pdfs to download also have a button to the Adobe site to download their latest reader (for free) in case people can't read pdfs even though that is desperately unlikely. I think we should have a similar button but perhaps we could choose someone other than Adobe? I think we should also follow that lead and have a button leading people to a stable ODT reader, not our 3.4.x releases! Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Marc Paré <m...@marcpare.com> To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 23 June, 2011 9:27:00 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides Le 2011-06-23 02:30, David Nelson a écrit : > Hi, > > My 2 cents would be that the best format for guides is .odt, plus a > publication of the user-ready version in PDF. > > I don't think an HTML version would really be a useful idea. > > -- > David Nelson > I will chime in as well. I would rather see the ODF versions first and the .pdf only if needed. We are, after all, telling people that we have the best office suite on earth, so let's prove it! It does work!. I would even go as far as not publishing any .pdf versions. People needing documentation will have LibreOffice to read the ODF files. I would only supply .pdf files if it involved anything with the installation of LibreOffice. Cheers Marc -- Marc Paré http://www.parEntreprise.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
