https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34002
--- Comment #5 from [email protected] 2012-03-10 12:01:46 PST --- Law offices in DC who switched from WP to MS soon lost productivity and saw an unacceptable drop in quality of their work products. No matter what a programmer may theorize, a blind person does NOT have full control of his or her formatting codes. A large firm paid a programmer (... one of the original programmers for GIMP) to write a plugin for MS-Word that would open a reveal codes window in word. The program is called "CrossEyes." It used to be expensive, but it is now available for free. Although I will continue to use WP because of RC, I've heard that law offices using Word with Cross Eyes have had improvements in productivity and document quality. It's only logical. The secretaries were finally able to understand why their pool editing was never printing out exactly as originally expected. Yes, even lowly secretaries can understand and make good use of seeing formatting codes. Search on "Cross Eyes - Reveal Codes in Word" Reveal Codes means visibility to format coding. There is NO truth in WYSIWYG on a monitor when real output will be sent (at great expense) to a highly precise priner. Visibility of codes is an ESSENTIAL feature for precise output. Word processors output to printers and pdf, and sometimes to structured text files, all of which are as unforgiving as possible in terms of object placement. Web programmers get to see their HTML code and their output devices are about as forgiving as possible. Printers are more precise, and mistakes are expensive, ecologically and financially. Full visibility of ALL format codes is just not an option. I don't understand the footdragging. Why copy a loser ... WordPerfect invented Styles. Styles work in WP because users have access to ALL the codes in a style. Bill Gates thought he could reinvent styles and have writers send their output to highly precise and unforgiving machines by hiding the codes from us ... hahaha. What a JOKE! The QUALITY of printed product in the workplace globally has declined dramatically ever since Gates tried to force his Word product on us (by having Windows registry step on the clock cycles whenever WP was running). WP also allows a user to search for specific format and style codes. For anyone who works with scanned documents, OCR (optical character recognition) programs really pile on the junk codes, trying to scale a best fit to the imperfect page scans. The junk formatting cannot be repaird in MSWord or OO because the junk codes cannot be revealed, or searched on and deleted. WP allows document search and delete on ALL formating codes. A simple macro remove the junk formatting from OCR (no way around it), while saving the important formatting, like italics, bold and font size. If you've never worked with reveal codes, and have a copy of MS Office, search on Cross Eyes Reveal Codes for Word. If MS adopts a reveal codes feature, the open source community will have some serious political egg on its face for a few years while it tries to catch up with the obvious. Gates will be laughing ... "Look how hidden the so-called open source community really is ..." -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-bugs
