Hi On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 10:41 +0100, Tom Davies wrote:
> 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 True most people are conditioned to look a pdf file. But one save LO documents with a password which maintains version/document control. This feature is (also in MSO) is rarely used, I think because most people are not aware of it. The Acrobat Reader is a marketing tool for Adobe to make pdf popular and improve sales of the Acrobat. There are currently several free readers for Linux and Windows. Some are considered better than Reader itself. Maybe instead of link to Adobe we have a link, if possible, to a FOSS pdf reader. People can still read the pdf and we promote some sister projects. What some have done to get around needing Acrobat to prepare pdf's is use a suite like LO that can export the document as a pdf. Any pdf generated we need can be done in LO and we state that on the page. Any time we revise the document we do it using LO. I have been aware of this feature in OOo/SO for many years when MSO did not have it. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.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
