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

I use a pdf reader called foxit when I am forced to fire up my windows VMs.
I am not sure of its licensing.

On Jun 24, 2011 12:26 AM, "Robert Derman" <robert.derman@pressenter.com>
wrote:
> 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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