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

Varun Mittal wrote:
> I personally feel we have more important set of priorities than diversifying
> right now into PDF reader. Also no point inventing the wheel again when
> there are several open source pdf readers available which we can integrate
> instead of developing one of our own.
>
>   
I am wondering do any of the open source pdf readers mentioned above 
work with Windows or are they all Linux, I mostly use Windows.  What I 
meant by HUGE when I referred to Adobe Reader was the more than 6 Gigs 
of hard drive space it takes up!  By contrast all of the LibreOffice 
suite of programs takes up 475 Megs of space.  That means that a mere 
reader takes up more than a dozen times the space of an entire office 
suite.  If that isn't mega-bloat I don't know what is.   It has been a 
long time, but I seem to remember Adobe Reader only taking 12 Megs of 
space at one time.  It used to come included on almost all driver disks, 
now it is just too big for that. 
> Won't it be a better idea to collaborate with one of the groups supporting
> the pdf readers available in Linux distros ...Such cooperation will help
> everyone focus on their core competencies.
>
> My 2 cents !
>
> Thank You
>
> Best Regards
> Varun Mittal
>
>
>   
> > and at the same time allow for the editing of this standard through the
> > regular use of ODF. We do have the user support and I am not sure, but our
> > dev numbers are up and I think that this would make quite an interesting and
> > exciting project to add to the TDF line of products.
> >
> >     
>
>   


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