Jim Ottaway wrote: > I have been using OpenOffice.org mostly because I have been doing lots > of editing work on files originally authored by others in MS Word, > Powerpoint, and Excel, which I have to return in their original file > formats. I use GNU/Linux, and OpenOffice.org appears to be the best > choice for this kind of thing. > > It usually works fine, but I find that my confidence that the conversion > into and out of OpenOffice.org decreases as the complexity of the file > increases. Since I can’t really risk things going wrong, I tend to fall > back on the MS applications to edit files with lots of complicated > things, which is a nuisance. > > So I was wondering if there was a list of known incompatibilities that I > could look at to anticipate any potential problems. I have looked > around, and the closest thing I could find was the issues database, but > that isn’t quite what I had in mind: what I would like to find is a > reasonably comprehensive list of all known issues related to saving in > external file formats.
A list wouldn't be very helpful because the granularity of its content is very small - it would list single properties of the file format that OOo can not import properly and you have to guess or find out wether they appear in your documents - a very tedious work when done manually. Sun has created a migration toolkit that can be used by migration partners (consultants) to analyze the documents of (potential) enterprise customers. The analysis scans the documents for the known problematic tokens and sums them up. In most cases also an estimated effort for the manual fixing of the documents is given. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
