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Easy Way for Sharing OpenOffice.org Documents?

Posted by Cliff on from the lite-and-simple-viewing dept.

rekrutacja asks: "I'm trying to find easy way for reading OpenOffice.org documents in places where you can't (or don't want to) install the full OOo suite. I found an on-line reader, but I would like something for offline viewing. There is a Java-based standalone program that you can download from here, but I can't seem to get it running to my liking. OOo Lite/Reader/Viewer should be easy to install (especially for Windows) and I'd like it to be small enough to fit my 16MB pen-drive. Even a Firefox/IE plugin is better than nothing. Does anyone know of such a beast?"

2 of 83 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Since you are focusing on reading and not editi by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 1, Troll

    Well, why not instead export PS and include WinGhostscript ?

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  2. Re:The simple answer by bhtooefr · · Score: 1, Troll

    I can sorta see what the troll hsa to say, though. OOo is... lacking in some areas (primarily MS Office compatibility, but UI and speed (esp. on Linux, where it's the only complete game in town) suck too). I'll admit, I just switched to (a not-so-legal copy of) Office 2003 (yeah, yeah, I know) from OOo 1.1.2.

    There are areas where OOo just BLOWS MS Office away - open file format, open code, little to no security risks, smaller size, legally free, etc., etc. However, it's also lacking whole apps that Office has. I use Publisher every day. Where's the Win32 OSS equivalent to that? I use Access, and need a program that can handle it's filetype. Where's that? I use FrontPage (don't laugh). Yes, there's nVu, but that's pretty buggy, in my experience.

    I'll admit, I'm impressed with OOo, but I use Office because OOo doesn't satisfy my needs. I'd recommend OOo in a heartbeat if one doesn't need everything Office offers, though.