[odf-discuss] Testing document with not so stellar results

[Daniel Carrera]

Hi Kaj,

There is no reasonable way to implement multiple columns with the
present framework. So this sort of thing will have to wait for the "2.0"
version.

The current viewer works by converting ODF to HTML+CSS and giving the
output to an off-the-shelf HTML engine (Gecko). This allows us to
produce a fairly usable viewer with only a tiny fraction of the work.
The viewer you see today is roughly ~2 months work by 3 developers in
their spare time. That is lighting quick.

We do have a plan for a high-fidelity viewer. Call it "version 2.0". We
could essentially take KOffice and trim it down into a viewer. Since
KOffice is being ported to Windows and Mac OS X, it would cover our
target platforms. This project will take much longer than the one we're
doing today, but could be completed within the year 2007. Of course,
this is all depending on whether we receive any grants to fund this sort
of development. There is no guarantee that this will happen.

Cheers,
Daniel.

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 09:12 -0500, Kaj Kandler wrote:
> Hi guys and gals,
> great tool this ODF Viewer. I just tested a document I created for an
> upcoming article in a new OO Magazine. It is a newsletter in two column
> layout and with a drawing embedded. I know that the drawing would not
> work, but also the two column layout does not work , not even showing
> the single column well. Also the image does not seem to be resized as in
> the original.
> 
> I though I attach the file to give you something to test with.
> 
> Kaj
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