-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James D. Parra wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Bryen [mailto:suseROCKS@bryen.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 3:19 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] [OT] spreadsheet data exchange format?
On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 17:47 -0500, BandiPat wrote:
On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2007-12-11 at 09:34 -0600, Bryen wrote:
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Just wanted add my own experience with OO 2.x. Although I was able to get most of my users to use it, anyone who used the Writer and Impress (which doesn't) for anything with special page details and imbedded graphics were sorely disappointed. Even after saving the document or presentation in any MS format, all the formatting was lost or scrambled when opened in MS Word and/or PowerPoint.
In order for OO to be useable for everyone and, hopefully, displace the MS equivalents, OO will need to save in a way that anyone who uses MS will not have any difficulty opening and viewing the content. For better or worse, MS is the standard that the corporate user knows and uses as the measuring stick. Once OO can accomplish that, all my users will switch to it.
Just my observation. Not trying to start a flame war.
IIRC that this was more than a bit of a problem between different versions of M$ Office Products, ("if M$ cannot get it right what hope for oo" could be an argument here, but I think an attempt to create a market for upgrades was a more likely reason for the issue ) .. I do not think this is specifically an openOffice problem, but something inherent in the way M$ work on this. Is not the Open Document specification business an attempt to get away from the pure bloody murder of trying to find a lowest common denominator between different applications (or versions of an application) so two (or more) people can exchange a usable document? (And are not M$ are trying very hard to put a very large spanner into this process because it may give application suites like openOffice a level playing field to operate on.... ) Not flaming a further observation.. honest guv :-)
Kind regards,
~James
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