@Christopher We are not living in a very small world.
When I receive a document from a customer written in 3.4.4, edit it with 3.5.2 and return it back, to that customer it will look like *I* broke it. Do you expect me to tell the customer they have an infrastructure problem? What you call an EoL version, another person will call 'stable'. Actually the problem here is a not very well thought through migration path from 3.4.4 to 3.5. The promise of the Open Document Format was that this would never be a problem again, since the format is standardized and would not be allowed to change in a direction that causes backwards compatibility problems. However now the standard has not changed, but the interpretation. Actually M$ with their ever changing format seem to do a better job in migrating documents and users to a newer product while maintaining backwards compatibility with slower adopters. Would it not be at least the minimum to warn system administrators of large companies that they may run into this problem before rolling out a new version? The release notes might be the appropriate place. Ferry -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/979320 Title: Particular Subtracted shapes not compatible LibO 3.4 - 3.5 Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: Fix Released Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Certain shapes drawn in earlier LO versions (<3.4.4) are greatly distorted in LO 3.5.2 (on windows) and LO 3.5.1.2 (Precise). Vice versa when saved in 3.5.1 correctly the documents are broken in 3.4.4 (Oneric). In our case our company logo embedded in writer documents is one of the problems. For us this means virtually all old documents are messed up when opened with LO 3.5.2 while newly created document are broken when viewed with LO 3.4.4. I don't know if many users are affected by this, but for us it certainly is a stopper to migrate to LO 3.5.1 or 3.5.2 and as a result to Precies. Ferry --- ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007) NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: libreoffice 1:3.4.4-0ubuntu1 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE= LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic 3.0.22 Tags: oneiric Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (201 days ago) UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fax floppy lp lpadmin mysql mythtv plugdev sambashare scanner syslog users video To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/979320/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
