Neil D. McAliece wrote:
Just a bit of an update on our Open Office 2.0 exploration. A user just sent me her most troublesome document that crashed the OO 2 beta in Windows.
It was the Survey of Divisions from the commonwealth. 47 pages of MS Word forms
with Macros.
I'm using the release ver of OO 2 on Ubuntu 5.10.
It's getting better. OO gave me the warning about Macros & I selected enable.
It took 5 minutes to open, but was fine and editable including all form elements. I
made a couple of minor edits and saved to a new file which only took a few seconds.
I then made more extensive edits and hit save. 15 minutes later it's still working
on it. Using 90% CPU and 600mb RAM. So the compatibility with MS is better, but
hopefully there will be some optimisation for MS forms and macros.
We could probably use it now. Documents that are a problem would be pretty rare. We do have either Office XP or 2003 licenses for every PC at the moment.
Some users hate me throwing new software at them even when it is more
functional. Our staff member who is least comfortable with PCs and change is
one of our test users for Zimbra email. He seems a bit miffed and is suffering
from Outlook withdrawal. This user also makes comments about free software
wouldn't be as good since MS is so big with lots of money :)
I am going to switch all of our users to Zimbra in a future release after a
couple of the bugs are fixed and features added (like sensible distribution
lists) This will probably happen in the first few months of next year.
For Office, new staff and/or PCs will probably start with open office & I'll
consider switching the other users to a later version of OO. I've got my own
license of win 2000 server with 10 CALs that I'm not using that I might donate to
the division. If we get the rare doc that is trashed in OO, a user can open it from
their network share through a terminal session as an interim solution.
Neil,
That sounds a great achievement.
I downloaded OOo 2.0.1 yesterday. It handles html docs noticeably
better. I use it for converting html articles to pdf's. Seems to be near
100% with html layout now. A number from MSN sites which may use MS
proprietary code, too.
Still has some problems with frames, text boxes and images in terms of
the anchoring.
It seems to confuse page, paragraph and character anchoring, but it's
easy fixed once you recognise the issue. Better in 2.0 than 1.X, though.
Bear in mind I'm converting, creating and saving in MS formats for
compatibility. May not occur with OOo formats.
Greg
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