Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 41633
Standalone OOo Reader with Access Rights management
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:04:00 UTC
Hello to OpenOffice.org Team Please consider a popular concept for OOo - Standalone OOo Reader with Access Rights management ------------------------------------------------------ (A) Standalone OOo Reader - An easier way to share OOo documents with people, who don’t have OOo installed on their computers, is to use Standalone OOo reader. Can you check the feasibility of providing such a reader at earliest? Some of the desired features of this reader will be- (1) It should enable a user to VIEW, COMMENT and PRINT OOo files. (2) It should be a standalone reader i.e. a user should be able to use it without the need of complete OOo’s Installation. (3) If Possible there should be a single reader for all types of OOo files e.g. Writer, Calc, Presentation etc. (4) Same kind of ability to read Star Office files (Older or Newer formats). (5) Freely downloadable / distributable. (6) Size around 10 MB or so. (7) If technically feasible then - No Need for Installation. (8) Availability on all OSes, on Which OOo runs. (9) Plug in for popular web browsers. (10) It should support Access Rights Management for OOo files (See below for more details). Although OOo complete suit is freely available, but still there are many people, who don’t want / or are not able to download/install the complete suit for various reasons. In this scenario OOo reader seems the best solution for easy file sharing. ------------------------------------------------------ (B) Better Access Rights management for OOo Files- (This Issue has already been reported by the same reporter, under Issue No. 41096. URL is http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=41096 and is being repeated, because it is directly related to the above discussed concept). Presently OOo documents can be password protected but there is no way to enforce document restrictions, similar to those offered by PDF files. Like - Document printing Content copying Comment writing Form filling Document signing etc. In other words, what other users can or cannot do with a document. MSO has also started offering this kind of functionality. Is it possible for OOo to move in this direction? ------------------------------------------------------ Everybody knows that It was Adobe’s *Reader*, which made their PDF format (and Acrobat) so popular. Even MS provides such readers for its office files. *Please Give a Serious thought to this suggestion* Thanks.
*Restricted* OOo Files (As of now Hypothetical) must *Not* be openable in other applications, as it can easily circumvent proposed Restrictions/Access Rights.
Hi mkol, thanks for using and supporting OpenOffice.org... Please post only one problem/enhacement wish per issue, thanks... reassigned to requirements
OOo is an Open source Project/Product. What if users change the source code and create their own versions of OOo, which do not follow the proposed Access Rights/Restrictions?
OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request. The Issue you raised is currently assigned to 'Requirements' pending review, but has not been updated within the last 3 years. Please consider re-testing with one of the latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been addressed. Either use the recent stable version: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html or consider trying the new OOo 3 BETA (still in testing): http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/ Please report back the outcome so this Issue may be Closed or Progressed as necessary - otherwise it may be Resolved as Invalid in the future. You may also wish to search for (and note) any duplicates of this Issue that may have advanced further by checking the Issue Tracker: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi Many thanks, Andrew Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues as part of: ~ The Grand Bug Squash, pre v3 ~ http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html
Many applications support the open document format.