On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Malte Timmermann <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Rob, > > > On 28.12.2011 20:23, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Malte Timmermann >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Rob, >>> >>> thanks for clarification :) >>> >>> I still wonder: There must be some common code between these two apps. >>> The ODF filter, the DOM and the renderings stuff (well, at least the >>> layouter, while the renderer itself might more be SDK specific). >>> >>> >> Yes, that is a good assumption. >> >> So it would still be interesting to have good and lightweight ODF viewers >>> for desktop systems. With better layout than ODF2HTML transformations can >>> do. >>> >>> Will the code for the ODF viewers also become AL2? :) >>> >>> >> That is an interesting idea. Currently the viewers are "free as in >> beer", but they are not open source. I can investigate this further, >> to see what is possible on our end, but I'd really like to see this >> project demonstrate further success working with the considerable >> amount of code it already has, from OpenOffice and soon from Symphony, >> and is growing the number of active coders, before throwing more code >> at it. >> > > Well, maybe ODF Toolkit would be a good home for this? > > Then, people would not only have tools for manipulating ODF, but also for > displaying ODF. Could also help to develop some ODF2PDF stuff with ODF > Toolkit. > > +1 -- I think this idea has merit. By itself, it will be difficult to attract a community. It does have complementary value to the ODF Toolkit project, so perhaps this makes good sense. We could open a discussion on this prospect to determine if there are other volunteers who see it this way...or not. Best, > Malte. > > > >> -Rob >> >> Best, >>> Malte. >>> >>> >>> >>> On 24.12.2011 02:44, Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Malte Timmermann >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi Don, >>>>> >>>>> nice stuff - but may I ask why the viewers only exist for mobiles, not >>>>> for >>>>> the desktop systems? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> The viewers are written to the iOS and Android SDK's. You can't run >>>> on desktop's except through emulators. And from our perspective we >>>> already had desktop and web server-generated HTML viewers for ODF. >>>> What we lacked was a viewer for disconnected mobile use. So that's >>>> what we made. >>>> >>>> -Rob >>>> >>>> Malte. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 12.12.2011 16:31, Donald Harbison wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> There has been some Twitter activity calling attention to today's >>>>>> release >>>>>> of the IBM Lotus Symphony Viewer[1] and the November 18th release of >>>>>> same >>>>>> on Android Marketplace.[2] >>>>>> While these are currently carrying the IBM branding, they work with >>>>>> most >>>>>> ODF emitting applications including OpenOffice, LibreOffice, etc. Give >>>>>> them >>>>>> a try! >>>>>> >>>>>> [1] >>>>>> http://s.apache.org/YGW<http:/**/s.apache.org/YGW<http://s.apache.org/YGW> >>>>>> > >>>>>> [2] http://bit.ly/tc7Un2<http://t.**co/7PoElUds<http://t.co/7PoElUds> >>>>>> > >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>
