On 6/23/2011 11:31 AM, planas wrote:
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 :)
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From: Marc Paré<[email protected]>
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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
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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.
An Adobe Acrobat Professional PDF can be generated/converted from
another PDF (say, a PDF ported from an ODT file) so as to allow the
Comment and Review (aka Comment and Analysis) functionality for any user
with the ubiquitous Adobe Reader. Then, any reader (using Adobe Reader)
of that enabled PDF can easily make and save any comments, notes,
highlighting, etc. directly to the enabled PDF for his own use. A PDF
not so enabled cannot be so readily "edited" by everyday, ordinary readers.
Therefore, I suggest that every OOo/LO PDF file be so converted by Adobe
Acrobat Professional afterward, prior to release so that OOo/LO users
will have that extra functionality. It only takes a few extra seconds to
convert a PDF by Acrobat Professional.
It seems foolish not to so enable them for the Comment and Review
function, considering its ease to do so with no added cost or real time
and effort...
Gary
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