Hi All,
Not to ruin the mood, but please consult a (or few) developers (like
Justin).
The whole interoperability thing is pretty quirky topic as the function
set and/or ground design of LibreOffice being different.
So interoperability always end in awful 'limitations' or needs massive
amount of work. Anchors to character are converted. Text boxes changes
to frames (or something else). Page breaks being paragraph setting in
Writer and 'object' in Writer. Or the Highlighting/background color
topic. Or the default font topic (save Calc file into xls & reopen...
font changed). Or the styles system of LibreOffice not being compatible
with Word [I think, not 100% sure]
So kind of skeptical if what is 'desired' being even achievable. Or even
there is any acceptance at all
I did quite some reports on things being different in Writer compared to
Word. Aside from incompatibility, you get , Writer isn't Word and isn't
expected it to be. Nor is Writer a clone of Microsoft Office.
So really get the desire, but kind of doubt if there is big
desire/support. And next comes total sum needed to 'fix' it. I would
imagine half a million euro not to be unrealistic; but well not a
developer and not good at estimating.. so this likely gets 'correct'. Or
people don't even dare put a budget on it. ICT projects & budget mostly
tricky topic.
But well, hoping Justin having some time to shed some light on the matter.
Cheers,
Telesto
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