On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:
> When I need to send a draft document to someone else for review and > comments > I save it as a Word97 .doc file. When comments come back, I'll sometimes > reconvert the document to .odt. Doing this with OO.o-3.x causes all sorts > of > formatting changes that did not occur with earlier versions. > > When I use my OO.o letter template the document has the letterhead first > page and continuation pages with a different header after that. What OO.o > now does in the translation to .doc is put the letterhead on each page; it > totally looses the different page styles. > > Also, it now inserts random spaces between words and, in a couple of > cases, within a word. > > This is retrogressive behavior. It's time wasting and a PITA to have to > go > through each line to look for random changes. What a shame that it's > becoming less of a collaborative writing tool than it used to be. > > Rich > > -- > Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility > Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation > <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: > 503-667-8863 > _______________________________________________ > While I agree these kind of problems can be a PITA, and OO.o is not perfect, it is still a good program. My wife is using OO.o on a G4 Mac running OSX 10.5, and has some problems, but overall it works. I think part of the problem (slow, occasional crashes) can be due to running Leopard on a G4 Powerbook instead of an Intel MacBook/MBPro, and the fact that OO.o on OSX is not a native GUI app, but there is a port (Neo Office), which uses X11 instead of Carbon/Cocoa. What purpose is it to convert between .odt and .doc? IMHO, if you are working with people in the M$ world, just keep it as .doc, and if you are working with people who use OO.o, keep .odt. Converting between them has never been a slam dunk, and that only exacerbates the problem. This is not entirely the fault of OO.o, we can blame the ever changing .doc standard for part of it. YMMV ---------- Matt M. LinuxKnight _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
