Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-15 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 16:45, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:36:58PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Thanks, I will start enumerating the differences between OpenOffice and LibreOffice here:

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 16:45, Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:36:58PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Thanks, I will start enumerating the differences between OpenOffice and LibreOffice here: http://dotancohen.com/eng/difference_openoffice_libreoffice.html That's

Fwd: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-13 Thread Brad Alexander
...Reposted to list... -- Forwarded message -- From: Rene Engelhard r...@debian.org Date: Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:03 PM Subject: Re: OT Apache Open Office To: Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com [ no idea whether you intented to send a PM, but.. ] On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 06:53

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-13 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 11/03/12 22:09, Greg Madden wrote: I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my work, archived documents templates this is working out better, for my use scenario, than LO ver 3.4.x and later. There are differences between AOO LO, significant enough to

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-13 Thread Chris Davies
Chris Davies chris-use...@roaima.co.uk wrote: I've found the converse to be true, particularly with templated documents. At one point I found that I could open templated documents with LO but in order to print them I had to save then in native OOo format and reload them in AOO. Fortunately

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 04:09, Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net wrote: Look at the referenced bug reports, there are attachments to the reports showing what has happened to my templates archived docs. others have noticed this also. Thanks, I will start enumerating the differences between

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:36:58PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Thanks, I will start enumerating the differences between OpenOffice and LibreOffice here: http://dotancohen.com/eng/difference_openoffice_libreoffice.html That's going to be one hell of a moving target. What audience are you trying

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread Chris Davies
Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net wrote: 1. About 'file open' : Someone mentioned LO has a stricter compliance with ? document format standards, anecdotal experience shows some MS docs do not open in LO that do open in AOO. Not really an area of concern here, I rarely get a MS document sent to

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread CamaleĆ³n
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:09:10 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my work, archived documents templates this is working out better, for my use scenario, than LO ver 3.4.x and later. What are those improvements you're seeing? There

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net wrote: There are differences between AOO LO, significant enough to warrant having a choice in Debian of which one to use. What are the significant differences that you have perceived? I might have to maintain a page outlining the

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 06:36:52PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: Someone will have to step up and put the work in to package AOO, for the choice to exist in Debian. The Apache OO folks do provide .deb files with desktop integration. In my tests these work well enough on a Debian stable

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:00:26AM +, Chris Davies wrote: documents. At one point I found that I could open templated documents with LO but in order to print them I had to save then in native OOo format and reload them in AOO. Fortunately that state of affairs lasted This is nonsense. This

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 12 March 2012 11:30:19 am Dotan Cohen wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Greg Madden gomadtr...@gci.net wrote: There are differences between AOO LO, significant enough to warrant having a choice in Debian of which one to use. What are the significant differences that you have

OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-11 Thread Greg Madden
I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my work, archived documents templates this is working out better, for my use scenario, than LO ver 3.4.x and later. There are differences between AOO LO, significant enough to warrant having a choice in Debian of which one

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 01:09:10PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my work, archived documents templates this is working out better, for my use scenario, than LO ver 3.4.x and later. That's interesting. Do you mean there are

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-11 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 11 March 2012 3:27:51 pm Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 01:09:10PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my work, archived documents templates this is working out better, for my use scenario, than LO ver 3.4.x