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

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Nuno J. Silva <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> On 2011-06-24, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
>
> > Marc Paré wrote:
> > > if we were to promote a "quick and dirty"
> > > "LibreOffice Reader", very much like the "Adobe Acrobat Reader", whose
> > > sole purpose is to provide the ability to "read" ".odt" files, there
> > > would be no need to carry .pdf formatted files.
>
> Heh. :-) Don't use Adobe Reader as an example of a "reader", use
> instead some other PDF reader with a reasonable memory and disk space
> footprint. (Unless that's what you meant by "quick and dirty".)
>
> > This, however, won't work. Document fidelity is not the aim of ODT
> > files, while it is the aim of PDF files (example: font embedding, but
> > one could find many more). Replacing PDF by ODT is just not feasible due
> > to the formats themselves, not to the lack of an "ODF Reader".
>
> Font embedding is an issue, it could render the viewer useless.
>
> It's possible, at least, to make some room for "compatible documents",
> by shipping a set of fonts with the viewer and announcing that as the
> "standard fonts" for ODF viewer.
>
> Unless there's some required feature of ODT that's not possible to
> reproduce in PDF, I suggest keeping with PDF for now: it is designed for
> portability and it's vectorial, so there's no loss.
>
>
> Someone suggested djvu (DeJaVU). I like djvu, I use it and I and spread
> the word about it, but IMHO it's main use is for scanned documents
> (making it so entire books can fit in a floppy!).
>
> Even if a pdf is larger than a djvu for the same document, if it was
> directly exported to pdf, it's vectorial. Converting to djvu makes it
> raster. IMHO that's a bad idea. YMMV.

Are you sure about that? If yes, maybe there should be a Version 28
with those improvements and more. Maybe DjVu format could get more
succesful if TDF adopts it and promotes it as OASIS OpenDocument
format (ODR?).

It's the missing leg for the OpenDocument file format collection, I think.

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