[libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word compatability

2015-10-02 Thread Tanstaafl
Some may be interested in my almost 2 year old Feature Request for Libreoffice to provide a very simple, 'Document Compatability Submission Page/Service', to make it very easy for users to submit problem documents like this: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71534 -- To

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word compatability

2015-10-02 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
On 2015/10/02 2:39, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) anyway. However, posting a bug-report about how well/badly certain formats are read in LibreOffice helps improve the program/suite in a practical way for all of us :) I never did file a bug report and am not sure I am "up to it", but I will try to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word compatability

2015-10-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 It is still important for LibreOffice to improve compatibility with certain secretive and constantly changing formats. Our devs do a fantastic job with this but this is one area where even fairly normal point users (such as me) can actually help them directly. Marc's answer should have

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word compatability

2015-10-01 Thread esjworks
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) +1 It is still important for LibreOffice to improve compatibility with certain secretive and constantly changing formats. Our devs do a fantastic job with this but this is one area where even fairly normal point

[libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word compatability

2015-10-01 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 01.10.2015 um 21:08 schrieb esjworks: > > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> +1 >> It is still important for LibreOffice to improve compatibility with >> certain >> secretive and constantly changing formats. Our devs do a fantastic job >> with

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word compatability

2015-10-01 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: Esjworks Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:08:28 -0400 > > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> +1 >> It is still important for LibreOffice to improve compatibility with >> certain >> secretive and constantly

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word compatability

2015-10-01 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: Andreas Säger Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 21:54:24 +0200 > Am 01.10.2015 um 21:08 schrieb esjworks: >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Tom Davies wrote: >>> Hi :) >>> +1 >>> It is still important for LibreOffice to improve

[libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word compatability

2015-09-30 Thread Marc Paré
Le 27/09/15 09:18 AM, V Stuart Foote a écrit : @Thomas, * It is a filter issue with the OOXML .docx rendering of CJK and Latin fonts. Probably worth opening a bug report against. Not really an answer, especially if you must substantially alter the document, however you can export from Office

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word compatability

2015-09-28 Thread anne-ology
announced, "genuine, imitation leather" ... then along came this kid filled with envy ... ... ... well, I digress ... ... ... ;-) From: Tom Davies <tomc...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 9:16 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word compatab

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word compatability

2015-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Any chance you could ask the Translation Agency to install LibreOffice, OpenOffice or some other free office suite that does conform to internationally agreed standards? If they are always trying to get documents to display properly between different versions of MS Office then they are

[libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word compatability

2015-09-27 Thread V Stuart Foote
@Thomas, * It is a filter issue with the OOXML .docx rendering of CJK and Latin fonts. Probably worth opening a bug report against. Not really an answer, especially if you must substantially alter the document, however you can export from Office 2013 Writer to PDF. And then Open the PDF of the