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.
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>
[2] http://bit.ly/tc7Un2<http://t.co/7PoElUds>
