On 25 June 2011 10:02, timofonic timofonic <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Nuno J. Silva <[email protected]> > 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. > > > -- > > Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) > > gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > What is the purpose of pdf? It's for putting documents on paper. If you simply want to read a document on screen use a browser. There was a project to develop a Firefox plugin through the OpenDocument Fellowship but I think it has stalled. I would rather encourage people to read screen based stuff with a browser instead of having to download pdfs when the information is rarely ever printed. If it needs to be LibO will produce a pdf to do it. Seems to me that a browser plugin is a lot simpler task and a lot more useful. Get Google to sponsor it for Chrome. -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications (The Schools ITQ) www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
