Re: [tdf-discuss] ignore m$ legacy?

On 07/21/2011 09:43 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On 21/07/2011 14:23, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> > I am of the opinion that good inter-operability with MSO products 
> > makes it easier to attract new users and that poor inter-operability 
> > with MSO products makes it more difficult.
> I quite agree.  As (I would say) between 90 and 95% of the business 
> world uses MSO, there's no incentive to change from MSO if the 
> alternatives aren't 100% compatible in terms of formatting, other than 
> cost of upgrading and the activities of the BSA and its' companions.
> My wife sends me documents written in Office 2003 which sometimes are 
> so badly mangled when I open them in OO or LO that I have to open them 
> in MSO to see what they should look like. And these are in general not 
> complicated documents....Having said that, then there have also been 
> instances of formatting incompatibilities between different versions 
> of MSO....
Much depends on the formatting that is used. Simple documents usually 
have no difficulties. Realize that in OOo I can represent things that I 
cannot represent in MSO and the opposite holds as well. Images anchored 
to paragraphs are particular troublesome.

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Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php


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