[odf-discuss] An odt viewer for Windows

[Chris Puttick]

I look forward to hearing about progress - a lightweight ODT viewer
makes publishing ODT files on the net or sending by email a
no-brainer. How big is the binary download so far and how big do you
think it might get when more feature-complete?

Chris

On 11/12/2007, Marc Kerbiquet <mkerbiquet at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I'm currently developing an odt viewer for Windows. I've just released
> a first version under the open source GPL license at
> http://mkerbiquet.free.fr/woodrat-reader/ .
> It is in an early development stage, and it supports only basic text
> features, but you can already play with it.
>
> The goal of this project is to create a stand-alone, fast and lightweight
> application to read/print most ODF text documents.
>
> It runs only on Windows but it has been written with portability in mind,
> so it should not be too difficult port to Linux using GTK+. But it is not
> planned yet and there's so much to do before then.
>
> Don't expect too much from this project, it has some severe limitations:
> the internal XML parser is fast but it doesn't support namespaces, so it
> won't be able to load documents using non default prefixes. Fortunately
> it works well with document saved with OOo.
>
> Your comments and suggestions are welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Marc
>
>
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