https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167522
--- Comment #3 from Paul Millar <[email protected]> --- Thanks for sharing this background. If I may add my 2c-worth. > The key takeaway of the "warning" being that if you use a format other than > LibreOffice ODF (1.4 extended) you could have formatting/interoperability > errors when you open it back up again in LibreOffice. Is there any way to quantify this risk? Put another way, if there are known problems that triggers a failure when round-tripping via OOXML then the warning should only be triggered if the document makes use of that formatting. For example, suppose that ODP supports the colour Olo but OOXML doesn't. If I change the text colour to Olo I would expect to see a warning when saving the document as OOXML. If the concern is that the user's choice of formatting might trigger some unintentional error (the document should be saved accurately using OOXML, but mapping Libreoffice internal state to OOXML is complicated and difficult to get right) then it sounds like any such problems are really just bugs. One might say that the warning is just saying "be warned, bugs might exist", which seems unnecessary. > Saving to an alien (non-ODF) format is dangerous. Could this statement be made more precise: under which conditions is it dangerous? As a counter-example, I imagine a single-page A4 text document containing the words "Hello, world" in Arial 11pt carries little danger of losing information if saved in OOXML. > Save it first to ODF, then make a copy to save to an alien format. Saving first in ODF helps if the person is writing a document that they're then sharing with other people, who are not expected to modify the document they receive. Unfortunately, saving first in ODF doesn't help, if the recipients then modify the document (e.g., some forms of collaborative working). The saved ODF file is now an out-of-date version of the document, and so (likely) of limited use. Cheers, Paul. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
