[ooo-build] Ooffice Viewer?

Harald Dunkel harald.dunkel at aixigo.de
Thu Aug 6 02:06:15 PDT 2009


Hi folks,

I am looking for a "true" read-only version of ooffice on
Linux. The current "-view" option is not sufficient, since
it still allows to store the document under a different
name/format, or to open other documents in read-write mode.

Background of the story is: We are _highly_ concerned to
send office documents to our customers that are incompatible
to their proprietary tools. If we would install a read-write
Openoffice on the Linux desktop PCs in the office, then the
risk is too high for this to happen.

Of course switching between Linux and Windows for reading
Office documents is very painful, even when using a virtual
windows host. Currently we look into Microsoft's viewers
together with Wine.

I would prefer to suggest a read-only Go-oo for this purpose.
It would give Openoffice a chance to put a foot into the door.


Any helpful comments would be highly appreciated

Harri



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