On Thursday 24 April 2003 12:51, Saeed Ahmed wrote:
Hi Guys How close these office suites are from enduser's view point. Can open office support documents prepared in msoffice? Any article which compares these products in detail.
It depends. Usually it does a good work, even better if MS fonts are available to OO. But It has some known limitations: for example, OO is unable to handle password-protected files; the macros are not imported (someone argues that this is good from a secirity point of view, but this is quite pointless). And you have to expect many problems in presentations with buttons not working or similar stuff. Btw, the conversion usually go fine, I always use OO (1.1b now), and I have to fall back to MSOffice very few times. Occasionally the import step takes huge amounts of memory, probably due to not-so-optimized routines or strange loops. For example, I had a doc of nearly 170 pages with images, and took more than 300Mb and 10 mins of 100% cpu to convert it, while MSOffice opened it in a couple of seconds. But the conversion was finally good. :) -- Andrea Negro andrea@alessandria.linux.it ICQ 25458773