Update on ODF Viewer
18 Nov 2006
Daniel Carrera has been too busy to blog on this, so I'm copying from his note to the odf-discuss list on 15 November.
I'm releasing a minor update of the ODF viewer. Version 0.3.
http://opendocumentfellowship.org/development/projects/odfviewer
Available for: Mac OS X (yay!!), Linux and Windows.
Normally I don't announce minor updates, but these do make the viewer much more useful and the next update may not be for a while (we're working on a few "difficult" bits at the moment).
So... what's new:
- Print function.
- Page up / Page down.
- Search function.
The search function is simple but still quite useful: It only takes you to the paragraph that contains the string. It goes from paragraph to paragraph. This isn't a bug. I designed it this way because it's easier. I hope to improve it in the future.
You'll notice several UI changes. Yes, I spent some time working on the UI. This is just a skeleton, to help the developers be clear on what features the final product should have. If you think that there's something important missing on the UI now is a good time to tell me. I can't promise we'll add everything you want for two reasons:
- It might be too hard or just not doable.
- We do want to keep the UI simple.
Feel free to take a look at your favourite PDF reader for ideas. But we are aiming for something clean like Evince, and not cluttered like Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Finally, I'll remind everyone that now we have anonymous SVN working and you are more than welcome to download the latest sources from the repository:
svn co http://opendocumentfellowship.org/repos/odf2html
svn co http://opendocumentfellowship.org/repos/odfviewer


