I don't know anyone who uses Office so I'm afraid I can't answer. That's
why I send PDFs - everyone can open those and see the same document.

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051...@gmail.com>wrote:

> My question though Simon is how well is ODF formatting preserved when
> opening up ODF formats in office 2010 and above on windows.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Phipps [mailto:si...@webmink.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 4:11 PM
> To: Boudi van Vlijmen
> Cc: discuss@documentfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Help vendor-lock-in awareness
>
> I generally advise people to send me PDFs rather than editable documents
> unless there's a real need for me to edit them. That way there's no risk
> anyone will get locked-in to anything :-)
>
> If I *do* need to be able to edit I request Hybrid PDF files, which are
> PDFs
> with the original ODF source embedded. They are easy to make with
> LibreOffice and I've created a tutorial here:
> http://webmink.com/2012/05/07/making-hybrid-pdfs/
>
> S.
>
> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Boudi van Vlijmen
> <bo...@vanvlijmen.nl>wrote:
>
> > Friends,
> >
> > Every email I send has the footer as in this one.
> >
> > The purpose is to achieve;
> >
> >    1. Vendor-lock-in awarness
> >    2. Hook in on the society learning curve status.
> >
> > The message is:
> > ODT in place of DOC/DOCX,
> > ODS in place of XLS/XLSX,
> > ODP in place of PPT/PPTX.
> >
> > ODF is one bridge to far. People think in DOC, XLS and PPT. To get
> > them away from that we should start from there. Not with a high level
> > ODF concept!
> >
> > Met vriendelijke groet,
> > Kind regards,
> > Boudi van Vlijmen <http://www.vanvlijmen.nl>
> >
> >   *Werk documenten*
> > ODT, gDoc, DOC, DOCX
> > ODS, gSheet, XLS, XLSX
> > en ODP, gSlides, PPT, PPTX
> >  *Distributie en Archivering*
> > PDF/A <http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A>
> >
> >
> >   [image: Inline image 1]
> >  [image: Inline image 1]
> >   *Open standards or Open Wallets that is the question! Waak over uw
> > onafhankelijkheid!
> > *
> > http://forumstandaardisatie.nl/
> > Beleidsquote "Rijksdiensten moeten vanaf april 2008 ODF ondersteunen.
> > Mede-overheden en overige instellingen volgen uiterlijk december 2008.
> > ODF = .odt voor tekst, .ods voor spreadsheets, .odp voor presentaties"
> > Vendor-lock
> > safe formats <http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in>
> >  http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
> > **
> >
>
> --
> 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
>
>
> -----
> No virus found in this message.
> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
> Version: 2013.0.2897 / Virus Database: 2639/6087 - Release Date: 02/07/13
>
> -----
> No virus found in this message.
> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
> Version: 2013.0.2897 / Virus Database: 2639/6087 - Release Date: 02/07/13
>
>


-- 
*Simon Phipps*  http://webmink.com
*Meshed Insights & Knowledge *
*Office:* +1 (415) 683-7660 *or* +44 (238) 098 7027
*Mobile*:  +44 774 776 2816*
*

-- 
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

Reply via email to