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Idea #6468: ODF reader



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Written by dega1999 the 5 Apr 08 at 21:50. Category: Office.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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The idea is to have an application that simply make possibile to view OpenOffice file without launch openoffice.
This is only capable to view the file , not edit it.
It should be fast and with just few command/option.
It's only a reader, like evince or kpdf for pdf.

As other people said it could be add the possibility to open ODF file to evince or another existing document reader without make a new one.


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sparky11 wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 01:42
Or a preview pane integrated into Nautilus

neon wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 02:20
Evince should handle this. :]

andruk wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 06:16
Preview pane in Nautilus is my vote. +1

what4893 wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 06:48
This maybe a complete noob thing to say, but couldn't this be integrated into Document Viewer? The default application for viewing just about anything that isn't text editable by GEdit?

vexorian wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 14:38
OpenOffice needs to release lightweight viewers for all platforms.

If this happened I would actually begin to release my documents in ODF, there are plenty of things I write that are of interest for a relatively small subset of people, but I think if each of us introduced ODF to 1000 guys, it will raise its importance significantly.


mmcmonster wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 15:36
Agree that this is an openoffice.org (and other end application) developer issue.

People save as MSOffice data format because they know:
1. Most of their recipients have some version of MSOffice.
2. Those that don't fit #1 can download a free viewer.

francois wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 17:00
especially a viewer for slideshows from oo impress

afuchs wrote on the 6 Apr 08 at 19:36
Integrate it into evince (aka Document Viewer). Then have nautilus use evince to render previews.

eld1e6o wrote on the 7 Apr 08 at 08:20
It is a good idea!
I voted your idea.
I like this kind of thinking

Greetings!

jorgejhms wrote on the 7 Apr 08 at 22:29
I think that evince should be able to do that. i's unnecesary to create or include another program.


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