Re: [libreoffice-users] poor conversion of .docx files
David Hanson wrote: Hello. I've been exclusively a Linux user for more than 10 years. Unfortunately practically all of the undergraduates I teach are still windoze droids, so I have to grade their papers in .docx format now, and I don't have a windoze machine to do it on. The problem is that somehow Bill has found a way to make .docx files containing graphs impossible for LibreOffice, OpenOffice, or odfconverter to handle. See attached example. The original version of this file (before I redacted the names and saved it from libreoffice) definitely contains embedded graphs probably imported from EXCEL. But nothing at all shows up in libreoffice 3.3.2 after the student's headings Part A: Graph and so forth. Openoffice 3.1 and odfconverter give the same result. Is there any insight out there? Conversion from .doc format works better, but as true windoze droids these students can barely cope with instructions like save your file in .doc format before turning it in. Thanks. Why not set the standard and require ODF format? Barring that why not have them submitted as .doc which has better conversion? MS does not follow the published standard that they pushed through the ISO committees so it is hard for third party programmers to match the format. It is actually harder than the reverse engineered .doc format. Andy -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] poor conversion of .docx files
lör 2011-04-09 klockan 04:50 -0700 skrev David Hanson: Hello. I've been exclusively a Linux user for more than 10 years. Unfortunately practically all of the undergraduates I teach are still windoze droids, so I have to grade their papers in .docx format now, and I don't have a windoze machine to do it on. The problem is that somehow Bill has found a way to make .docx files containing graphs impossible for LibreOffice, OpenOffice, or odfconverter to handle. See attached example. The original version of this file (before I redacted the names and saved it from libreoffice) definitely contains embedded graphs probably imported from EXCEL. But nothing at all shows up in libreoffice 3.3.2 after the student's headings Part A: Graph and so forth. Openoffice 3.1 and odfconverter give the same result. Is there any insight out there? Conversion from .doc format works better, but as true windoze droids these students can barely cope with instructions like save your file in .doc format before turning it in. Thanks. I would ask them to export their work to the PDF format, unless you need to edit them. There is a Linux version of Adobe Reader, if Evince won't open the documents. -- Best regards Johnny Rosenberg -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
