Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-11-13 Thread john herron
On 10/26/2013 01:41 AM, Joel Madero wrote: On 10/25/2013 03:22 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: I don't even really know where to begin with this. I haven't enough information to file a bug, really, because what I have is vague, broad. But I have been doing business as a freelance translator for 10 y

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The only way to ensure your DocX documents appear exactly the same on other people's machines is to make sure you use the same OS and the same version of MS Office as they are using. If you deal with a lot of different people and are not certain which versions each of them has then that mean

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-27 Thread Gerald Pechoc
If I sum up the problems with docx documents and with LO in general, best solution is to have a pc with linux and virtual box for running WIN7 and original MS Office. If you earn your money with these docx then you have to adopt your work flow to that. You can not tell your customer to change

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-27 Thread Gerald Pechoc
If I sum up the problems with docx documents and with LO in general, best solution is to have a pc with linux and virtual box for running WIN7 and original MS Office. (a dual core processor and 4GB Ram is enough). If you earn your money with these docx then its on your side to adopt your work

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-26 Thread e-letter
On 25/10/2013, baldwin linguas wrote: > > It's ruining my business. > I'm losing clients, losing money, and I have a family to feed. > And I don't know what to do about it. > OpenOffice won't write to .docx, and LibreOffice messes them up. > Perhaps you should compare the editing process using m$

RE: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-26 Thread David Gast
. Note: Checking embed standard fonts in LO does not solve the problem. Best regards, David From: Gerald Pechoc [fed...@pechoc.eu] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 15:57 To: ubu...@pechoc.eu; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-26 Thread Kolbjørn Stuestøl
Den 26.10.2013 00:22, skreiv baldwin linguas: Now, suddenly, every time a client sends me a .docx file, I get a complaint when I return their documents that the formatting has changed (tables are different, fonts changed, bullets disappear, or, worse, they can't even open the document, although i

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-25 Thread Gerald Pechoc
Hi, and you don't have the possibility to send .pdf files to your clients? In this case you are sure that formatting and fonts will be correct. This seem to be very important, from my point of view, especially in the case you have to translate to languages like german, polish, french where

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-25 Thread Joel Madero
On 10/25/2013 03:22 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: I don't even really know where to begin with this. I haven't enough information to file a bug, really, because what I have is vague, broad. But I have been doing business as a freelance translator for 10 years, using only FREE/OSS, (OmegaT, OpenOffi

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-25 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
Dnia 2013-10-25, o godz. 18:22:08 baldwin linguas napisał(a): > Now, suddenly, every time a client sends me a .docx file, I get a > complaint when I return their documents that the formatting has > changed (tables are different, > fonts changed, bullets disappear, or, worse, they can't even open

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-25 Thread Gerald Pechoc
Hi, and you don't have the possibility to send .pdf files to your clients? In this case you are sure that formatting and fonts will be correct. This seem to be very important, from my point of view, especially in the case you have to translate to languages like german, polish, french where you

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-25 Thread Paul
>From what I gather, even MS Word still has some problems with docx, and LO is likely to be somewhat buggy with it for the foreseeable future. Until MS stops "developing" it so that it can become a fixed format (and not a moving target), or makes it a truly open standard, LO is likely to be playing

[libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-25 Thread baldwin linguas
I don't even really know where to begin with this. I haven't enough information to file a bug, really, because what I have is vague, broad. But I have been doing business as a freelance translator for 10 years, using only FREE/OSS, (OmegaT, OpenOffice, etc., on Debian GNU/Linux) without any major