On 07/02/2015 02:46 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On 7/1/2015 2:52 PM, Mark Misulich wrote:
I use it every month this way to produce a newsletter using MS Word and Adobe Acrobat.
Seriously, I can't imagine a single valid reason for firing up a virtual machine to use either Word or Acrobat.
Install LibreOffice, import one old newsletter and do the newsletters with LO. It will even render the letter to PDF for you. You can even save them in Word format if you are convinced you can never drag yourself away from Word.
I have to second that - in my company, we've been MS-Office-free for nearly ten years. Initially it must have been with openoffice 1.x. It was very much a conscious decision and we've never looked back.
+1 I do note that many of the documents we 'converted' had been written by people more used to WordPerfect and used explicit line by line word by word formatting, which was a bitch of a job to convert and would not have been possible if we weren't using Perl. If you want to see an example of this kind of idiocy look at some HTML mail produced by the MS-Word editor in Outlook. And yes there are web sites that do much the same the same thing. OO/LO isn't exactly "obsessive" about style sheets any more than Firefox is. You can get by without them, but OO/LO is more consistent in their application than MS-Word is -- any of the versions of MS-Word, to my best knowledge. This is particularly true for nested lists. Many of the proposal & specifications we deal with reflect the governmental/military style and need to be consistent about such matters are indenting. Something that we could never achieve with MS-Word. On a couple of occasions our clients have actually asked "How can you get MS-Word to be that consistent?" Well we can't/couldn't. But we could with LO. As for the other parts of MS-Office ... Converting presentations was painful. I freely admit that. The problem was with fonts and spacing. There was no easy solution. None of our spreadsheets were complex. Most related to matters of time/billing. A few were simple financial planning or reporting. The worst case were the ones embedded in documents. All converted without problems, perhaps because the most complicated expressions were sum of columns or rows. Or date calculations. Like Per, we've lived without MS-office (except for a couple of die-hards in sales&marketing) for a long while, many for all of this century. I'm slowly converting to run Linux. A few native, a few as remote terminals/thin clients. The main source of .doc/.docx and other MS0office formats is the outside world. Many people treat it as a 'standard' rather than export to a text format. Others are using PDFs for a variety of reasons, some people (mistakenly) see them as immutable but for the most part they seem to be used because they display exactly how the author wants. Well perhaps that's not quite true. I have some PDF files from "e-book" authors who supply them as an alternative to .mobi format. The PDF readers in the ebook readers on my tablet seem to all use the same library and it DOES NOT display PDFs, and that includes the graphics/mindmaps we've produced, the same on tablets as on PCs using Adobe reader, FoXItreader or even Gwenview. So much for universality of display. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org