On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 09:41:29AM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > 2008/12/10 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > 2008/12/9 Oron Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Every file? As someone using OpenOffice.org since before 1.x days > > > it looks a bit overestimated. > > > > > > > I exaggerated. But my professors still send files in Word with > > complex, unneeded formating that OOo 3 cannot handle. They use > > Mathtype, too, which even normal Word cannot read. I have asked them > > time and again for PDFs. Their answer is that the university > > (Technion) proves MS Windows and Office for free to my faculty. > > Have you tried other options like AbiWord and KOffice? I just read > somewhere (probably linmagazine or whatsup) that the new version of > AbiWord is even better at supporting latest MS formats. > > Also have you checked crossover office support? I think it's a bit > ahead of the plain WINE project and doesn't cost to much (actually was > given for free in a sale about a month ago). > > Also worst case if you must access MSO then another option is to run > Windows in a VMWare.
Also, I don't know about the Technion, but when I worked in tau (and still today, as far as I know), we provided to students access to a Windows terminal server with basically all the software they needed for their studies (in parallel with access to Unix machines which was provided for 20 or so years, also when I was a student). -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
