On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Dan Covill <[email protected]> wrote:
> I tried all three Open Source suites a year or so ago. Kingsoft, being > from China, has the charming option to set how you want your text to read: > left-to-right, right-to-left, or top-to-bottom! > > All three work well and are strong enough for industrial use. You will > definitely run into differences in the rendering of complex documents. But > Microsoft, with their love for proprietary complexity, is the main problem > here, and you can avoid most of that by generating your documents in > Kingsoft (or whatever) and saving them as .doc files. I ended up staying > with OpenOffice, but the others work fine. > > NOTE: All of these word processors have an option to set the default file > format. Set it to .doc and you'll have no problems sending to others. > > --------------------- > Some of us consume ???X files without the aide of humans reading them. The ability to render the XML from the doc makes it SO MUCH EASIER for standard output from customers. I am working on an email forwarding plan to take all that nasty stuff from top 10 customers and decode what it says and let proper people know what to do, if anything at all. We get hundreds of these things daily. So much time is wasted to identify what changed. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cajidmyletm6qqzfomfmbxxefkwt2syobjfhh0jv0hlc-bdk...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
