On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 22:33, Richard Neal wrote: > > Ive actually tried openoffice.org in production and yes it will handle > "SOME" word and excel files but it wont work with anything complicated > ie word files with varied fonts menu's and embedded company logo's when > I try to open these types of files on openoffice.org they come out as a > total mess with items placed all over the place.
Complicated images are an issue with OpenOffice.org. If they are OLE rather than true images then the OLE picture is sometime crap and therefore not OpenOffice.org's fault. I open documents with images all the time and have not struck this problem, my documents are deliberately simple though (like me :-}) Regarding the font issues, as far as I am aware there are no major font issues. Tables are another issue, very complicated tables can cause some problems as well. If you have any specific documents that fail reduce them to a small subset (or even the whole thing) post them to me personally and I will raise an issue on OpenOffice.org if you do not want to do it yourself. KenF PS: Now with checkin status on OpenOffice.org :-} -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
