On 08/12/2011 06:34 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 08/12/2011 03:19 PM, NoOp wrote:
> ...
>> 
>> There are considerable issue with OOXML/MOX[1] files:
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=docx
>> 
>> Then again, Microsoft also has issues as well:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
>> <http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/open-a-word-2007-document-in-an-earlier-version-of-word-HA010044473.aspx>
>> 
>> Your best bet is to ask users to use .doc rather than .docx (preferably
>> .odt, but we all know that isn't realistic).
>> 
>> [1]
>> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_OOXML
>> 
>> 
> 
> Sorry, forgot to mention that there is a commercial package that does a
> very nice job with .docx. Even the export to .odt included the notes
> from the file that I tested:
> 
> <http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=11942>
> 
> http://www.softmaker.com/english/ofl_en.htm
> 
> You can try a working linux demo for 30 days:
> http://www.softmaker.de/cgi-local/of10trial.py
> 
> I just installed (deb version) and it does a pretty nice job. Looks
> quite like LO/OOo/StarOffice. Interesting that comes out of Germany -
> the home of StarOffice & they've been around for quite some time. Also
> interesting (albeit old - 2006) interview:
> <http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2006070509040463>
> Louis Suarrez-Potts.

Must be getting old/tired... last line was meant to read:
"comments from Louis Suarrez-Potts are interesting".



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