>>>>> On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:17:57 +0300, Lars Nooden
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/23/10 4:01 PM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> ... The
>> quality of the filters in general, it think are very much an
>> topic of marketing, since they are the central part of the OO adoption.
> Not really. There was never 100% fidelity between MS
> Office versions nor even between the same version on
> different machines.
Well truth is I had once a MS office document from 1994, written
by Office (Mac version), alas it could not be opened by any
application save a modern Office version of the Mac. However
starting from Word 1997 the fidelity might not be 100 % for
Word Docuements using different word version, but *much*
better than the OO filters. And as I said wordperfect and
even textmaker (40 employes) have better import filters :'(
> Anyway, the world has moved on from closed, proprietary
> office formats. The old documents will go away through
> attrition, but the sooner people stop making them, the
> sooner the overall problem goes away. Nothing should be
> done that should even appear to encourage further use
> of legacy formats -- if the goal is to further market
> share OpenOffice.org and other ODF-based suites.
This is precisely the attitude which will help MS
office! The world has NOT moved [1] I
ensure you from (bitter) experience with my colleagues in
the last 5 years: Even if they use MS Office 2007, their
default format is binary doc. These documents will not
disappear. Only having better import filters *will help* to move
away from these formats, and this will help to gain more
market share for OO!!!!
> OpenOffice.org can be installed parallel to any pre-existing legacy
> applications as the old apps and old documents are phased out.
> Perhaps that fact ought to be made more widely known. \
But what does this help if these users cannot read their
actual and old documents. I encouraged over the last 5 years
me colleagues to switch to OO, always with the same result:
"I cannot read my old documents"
"if I send a document to a colleague he/she can't read it."
So having import export filters say of the quality of
Wordperfect should be *the* goal of OO.
Uwe
> /Lars
Footnotes:
[1] I know some government encourage the use of ODF, but
this is minority.
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