Mark Rogers wrote:
There seems to be a common perception that FOSS software is amazingly good for its price (obviously not as good as proprietary software but not bad considering). I think we should be trying to counter that perception. A number of times I've heard that OOo is ok as long as you don't need anything complicated, otherwise you need MS Office; in my experience there are plenty of things I rely on in OOo that MS Office simply cannot do.
How true. For years at work we had to use the full adobe to convert word docs to pdf to files send to clients. Why? Because all the corrections still exist in the original word document and can be seen by a knowledgeable client e.g rough price calculations, silly notes put in by authors, and the client could subtly alter the document, sign it and send it back (if it were a contract for instance). At least OOo exports pdf directly.
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