Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Do not support writing to OOXML format

On 12/31/10 05:07 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On 30/12/10 20:41, Larry Gusaas wrote:
> > On 2010/12/30 2:19 PM  Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > > OOXML will spread anyway because MS Office 2007 and 2010 use this format by default. Nothing you can do about it I'm afraid.... 
> >
> > Yes you can do something about it. Don't enable writing in that format. Use PDF's for 
> > communicating. If a MS user needs to be able to modify a document, use .doc format. There is no 
> > need to use .docx format. MS Office 2008 and 2011 can still read .doc files.
>
> None of you get the point, do you.
> 1. It is arrogant to return a document in a format different to that which was sent to you. (That's 
> why email clients always reply in the same format in which the original message was received)


It must be arrogant for them to send you a format you don't support.  Also, if the Win 7 users 
don't know what format the documents are in, why does it matter if it's returned to them in a .doc 
format?



> 2. Changing the format may well lose formatting in the document that is not supported in the older 
> document type.

Changing the format is inevitable.  Libreoffice and OOo converts it to ODF when it opens/imports 
the docx.  When you save that document as a .doc file Libreoffice and OOo simply export it to that 
format.  There are two conversion, opening and saving.  As I stated previously, saving to .docx 
will not be as accurate as saving to .doc until it matures.


> 3. .doc, .xls and .ppt  are Microsoft proprietary formats anyway - it's just that they are much 
> easier to analyse...


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