Benjamin Horst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> Have you contacted these companies to request they add OpenOffice
> compability to their products? They way to make them change is to tell
> them, as a customer, that you demand it! 
>

Doesn't work when people contact us -- they just get told to fix things 
themselves. Why should it work with anyone else? 
 
> Also noteworthy is the fact that many of the add-ons required to make
> Microsoft Office usable for your needs are already included in
> OpenOffice: export to PDF, certain bibliographic tools, vector
> drawing, etc. 
>

I don't know about the PDF tools, but there is nothing in OOo's 
bibliographic tools to match the sophistication and ease of use of products 
like Endnote and Biblioscape. This is well-known and admitted by all 
concerned. We have had a "bibliographic project" for something like three 
years. So far it has released a quite detailed plan for world domination, 
and not a single line of code that can be used from the program. 

There are technical reasons why OOo can't be integrated with biblioscape by 
a volunteer effort. I think the problem with endnote is essentially that 
our RTF support is crappy. 



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Andrew Brown
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