Re: [tdf-discuss] New "LibreOffice Reader" Eliminates Need for "PDF Reader"

On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 17:40 -0400, Marc Paré wrote:
> OK, this is just a teaser to entice people into a discussion of the 
> following proposal.
>
> There is talk on the documentation list of the formats made available to 
> users of our documents (manuals, reference books, etc). These for now 
> are in .odt (ODF) and .pdf (Adobe) and possibly .html (being discussed 
> on the documentation list).

Hi Marc,

Well when you say .pdf you mean a file descriptor.

How about we rather talk about ISO 3200-1, a standard often called PDF
1.7.

Perhaps we could talk about PDF/A as a standard. (Laughing, that is sure
to get a response...)

OK - so a LibreOffice reader? I would say what about an ODF reader and
there are already a few:
http://odf-viewer.findmysoft.com/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/odfreader/

Then there are a few for mobile platforms: Android, iOS and Palm

The root problem IMO is that ODF isn't designed to do what PDF is
designed to do, meaning simply that each has a place and a purpose.

But that doesn't there isn't some room for an ODF reader with some tie
in with LibreOffice branding, per se.

Just my thought on this anyway.

<big snip>

Thanks,

Drew


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