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March 29, 2006

ODFReader in Development for Firefox

We all know that ODF, OpenDocument Format, is great. You don't have to pay other companies to access files you created yourself. (I talked more about this in “Microsoft Owns Your Tube Top.”)

OpenOffice.org documents are in ODF format. Great. So you can read ODF documents with OpenOffice.

Um....OK. But we want world domination on this. We want to be able to email ODF documents around to everyone, and everyone can open them for free. Without having to download OpenOffice if they don't want to.

We can already do that with PDF files. That's because of the Adobe PDF Reader program that's built into pretty much every computer on the planet.

So what do we need for ODF files? Well, clearly, an ODF reader application.

Wily Yuen tipped me off to this. There's a new extension in development for FireFox called ODFReader.

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=1888

The extension is still very early in development and needs more effort to further its progress. However, it could go a long way to help the spread of ODF.

 

Posted at 05:22 AM in Open source, Opendocument format, OpenOffice, OpenOffice books, OpenOffice training, OpenOffice.org, Switching to OpenOffice |

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Como ya sabeis tanto Open Office como Koffice soportan de forma nativa ODF, sin embargo hasta ahora para poder leer los documentos necesitabamos tener instalado alguno de los mencionados programas. A partir de ahora con la extensión ODFReader para fire... [Read More]

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Comments

I would say for Firefox not from Firefox.

Posted by: Nikos Kouremenos | March 29, 2006 at 07:25 AM

Nice one, Solveig.

Btw, if any of you know XML and XSLT and want to help on improving this ODFReader extension, please check out this article in OpenOffice.org Wiki:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Firefox_ODFReader_extension

Posted by: Wily Yuen | March 29, 2006 at 08:57 AM

This is angel visisting first time to this site and find it really very interesting.

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