[+PLUS] Re: [fsug-kochi-discuss] [prp-stg1] png, odt figured out

[प्रवीण् ए (Praveen A)]

2006/3/5, Kps Menon <chinesekps at gmail.com>:
>
> Dear friends,
>
> Though, if a  .png  graphic is being allowed, why not  .gif  or others ?


gif is patented.  http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html You can read this
why we should not use gifs.

b) odt  seems to be desired because it is of  the FOSS type s/w, vs. say
> Acrobat
> Reader that is proprietary.


pdf is desired since there are many Free Software  pdf viewers (but not one
for Windows in my knowledge though)

 Linux's OpenOffice suite etc. operate
> with this stuff.
> Anyway i am making this assumption on the demand for  odt .


Anyway odt is prefered as it is an open standard, not just OpenOffice many
other programes support open document format like Abiword,  Koffice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_applications_supporting_OpenDocument

It gives a full list of supported apps.

> Good.  Thanx.  Sankaran.  End.
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