This topic should probably have a thread of its own. --Jean On 15/05/2013, at 10:05, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
