ODFReader – Firefox Extension for Reading OpenDocument Files

Posted by E@zyVG | Filed under Software

We all know that ODF, OpenDocument Format, is great. You don’t have to pay other companies to access files you created yourself. OpenOffice.org documents are in ODF format. Great. So you can read ODF documents with OpenOffice.But we want world domination on this. We want to be able to email ODF documents around to everyone, and everyone can open them for free. Without having to download OpenOffice if they don’t want to.We can already do that with PDF files. That’s because of the Adobe PDF Reader program that’s built into pretty much every computer on the planet. Now there’s a new extension in development for FireFox called ODFReader.

The extension is still very early in development and needs more effort to further its progress. However, it could go a long way to help the spread of ODF. Currently it handles OpenDocument text files, in the future it will handle the other types too. It is released under the LGPL/GPL. This ODFReader Firefox extension makes use of an XSL file.

Comments (2) | November 6th, 2006

2 Responses to “ODFReader – Firefox Extension for Reading OpenDocument Files”

  1. Taoski Says:
    November 9, 2006 at 12:20 pm

    Some twonk sent me an ODF file with a screenshot of an error message in the other day.

    I had to use Writely AKA Google Docs to open it and convert it to get the image out!

    I am running OO on my Macbook now though – and it’s cool!

  2. Elly Groshong Says:
    November 27, 2010 at 11:11 am

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