On 15/05/2013, at 7:54, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: > As a point of discussion on the printing of .pdf's from .odt: > > I was hoping to promote our .odt file format and hope that the people who > download and print brochures would decide on their own to create the .pdf > brochure should they see a need for doing so. This way, we would be assured > that the person(s) would at least be using an ODF-compatible wordprocessor. > > This is more of a philosophical view of posting our materials and less of > practicality. Does it make it more difficult to print out our brochures? Well > yes, if you consider that some may just download the .pdf version and go to > print with Adobe Reader or another .pdf reader, and, not even bother having a > version of LibreOffice on their system. But IMO, I would then rather see > people use LibreOffice or another .odt compatible wordprocessor do the work. > This will at least ensure that our product and format stand out as a good > solid and professional working format from which to work. It would help in > establishing the ODF standard as a gold standard in office formats. > > We need to start displacing the .pdf format and we, the juggernaut that we > are, are well placed to do this; there are really only 2 elephants in the > room left and its LibreOffice and MSO. > > We can't keep saying that the ODF standard is the best of office suite > standards and then make use of the Adobe .pdf file to print our products. We > are well placed to encourage/influence more printing houses to host > LibreOffice solutions on their premises for printing purposes. The first > question users should say to their printing houses is "Do you service/support > LibreOffice ODF printing?" If the demand is there, the service will follow. > By continuing to make use of .pdf formats, we are diminishing the demand of > service for our own product. > > We use LibreOffice in-house for our production work and we know it's strength > as a serious work tool. > > IMO, we should start making our influence felt where we can. This will also > strengthen our product with groups who are considering adoption of our suite > as they will see our resolve to make the ODF formats more of the office > format standard of choice. > > Marc >
Two points: I travel with an iPad. I can download and print a PDF using the iPad. I cannot (yet) run LO on my iPad. When LO is available on Android, that will help other tablet users -- but not us iPad users. I don't think we should let ideology get in the way of practicality. Also, I am of the camp that says, don't give people an editable file (from any office suite or DTP program) unless you want them to be able to edit it. I would *never* give an editable file to a printer, if I can possibly avoid it, lest they accidentally change something. --Jean -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
