On 22 July 2011 02:06, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <and...@pitonyak.org> wrote:
> 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. Open Source Consortium is currently trying to get a UK government policy to use simple document layouts for interoperability where ever possible. Discourage unnecessary decoration, complex tables etc. IMHO it would improve their documents in any case an lower the production costs so better for the tax payer. -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: > http://www.pitonyak.org/**AndrewMacro.odt<http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt> > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > discuss+help@**documentfoundation.org<discuss%2bh...@documentfoundation.org> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**documentfoundation.org/www/**discuss/<http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications (The Schools ITQ) www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
