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From: Alexander Thurgood <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sun, 17 April, 2011 4:37:31
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: For MS interoperability- Legacy formats or
OOXML?
Le 16/04/11 18:28, lotechinmo a écrit :
Hi,
>
> Now I am switching our campus to LibreOffice, and with its ability to save
> to OOXML I have another option which leads me to my question. From a purely
> technical perspective of interoperability and document fidelity, would MS
> Office users be better off saving word processing, spreadsheets, and
> presentations in the legacy MS formats or in the OOXML formats? In other
> words, which filters in LO are more compatible with MS?
>
At the moment, go "Legacy" format, i.e. Word/Excel/Powerpoint 97. The
OOXML filters really don't cut it just yet in lots of situations,
especially with roundtrip conversions of tables, image placements, and
headers, big documents, etc, just as a few examples off the top of my
head from the bug reports. Work is being done to improve the OOXML
filters though, and performance when importing / exporting, by moving
the filters to C++ rather than having to depend on Java and XSLT processing.
Alex
Hi :)
+1 I agree. I think that pictures that are not "in-line" still jump around a
bit sometimes as do tables but generally it seems to work fairly well = better
than between 1 version of Word and another anyway.
The OOXML format doesn't seem to be properly implemented by MS Office even tho
i
thought they drew up the specifications for it (i could easily be wrong about
that and don't care if i am). Ahh well. Hopefully it will all settle down a
bit soon.
Regards from
Tom :)
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