Hi :) Hmm, sorry for the double post. When you save with LibreOffice it doesn't seem to make much difference which format you use as long as the recipient opens the document in any version of LibreOffice. Even other programs such as google-docs seem to be fine with it. It's just when you try to open with MS Office that images get moved around.
With Word there can often be differences between the way MS Office 2003, 2007 or 2010 displays documents even if the original document was saved in MS Office in the first place. You seem to need to be using the same version as whoever you collaborate with. Of course there will always be some variation depending on printer settings such as page size (A4 vs US letter etc). Rtf 'should' be the best cross-suite format. I thought that was one reason MS designed it? But it's so rarely used that problems with implementation or in the original spec have not been entirely fixed. Oddly the .doc format seems to be the best format for exchanging files between MS Office and other programs because it's been used so much for so long that most issues have been dealt with. One reason for preferring Rtf instead of Doc is the amount of clutter stored in Doc making file sizes quite a lot larger in most cases. Sometimes there is hidden info in there about who first created the document, what type of machine, some revision/changes, info about fonts that have been used, personal info that may have been stored in a documents properties. A lot of people don't start a fresh new document but just take an old one and delete almost everything to start something that looks fresh but still contains lots of hidden info. Rtf still contains quite a lot about fonts but removes personal info that Doc would keep. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa140277(v=office.10).aspx Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 21/9/11, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] RTF files rendering: huge differencies in LO 3.4.2 and MSO 2010 -- bug? To: [email protected] Cc: "'Arkady'" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, 21 September, 2011, 23:21 I'm puzzled. Tom, are you saying the differences that are being talked about here are attributable to differences between the ODF 1.1 and ODF 1.2 specification? (I.e., Microsoft Office supports the former, and not the latter at this time.) Or are they discretionary differences in implementations, where later versions of LibreOffice do it better than earlier OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice versions? There doesn't seem to be any consideration that the problem could be in conversion of RTF on input. Is it known how the RTF was produced? Could it be an RTF version problem? Arkady, can you tell us how the RDF was produced? - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Tom Davies [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 15:00 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] RTF files rendering: huge differencies in LO 3.4.2 and MSO 2010 -- bug? [ ... ] Doc and DocX have more options but .Odt seems to be best for images. Sadly MS Office only supports early versions of Odt rather than the newer one used by other programs such as LibreOffice. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 21/9/11, Arkady <[email protected]> wrote: From: Arkady <[email protected]> Subject: [libreoffice-users] RTF files rendering: huge differencies in LO 3.4.2 and MSO 2010 -- bug? To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 21 September, 2011, 17:02 Hi all! There's a trouble opening simple RTF file in LO 3.4.2. It is opened, but it's rendering is incorrect. Same file is correctly opened by MSO 2010. May someone provide feedback on the issue? For reference: Image ofLO 3.4.2 with opened file 96.rtf http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3355881/file_96_in_libreoffice_342.jpg Image of MSO 2010 with opened file 96.rtf http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3355881/file_96_in_mso_2010.jpg Original RTF file: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3355881/96.rtf 96.rtf Another problematic RTF file (incorrectly rendered table in LO 3.4.2): http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3355881/requisites_table_in_russian.rtf requisites_table_in_russian.rtf Have anybody encountered with the [email protected] -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RTF-files-rendering-huge-differencies-in-LO-3-4-2-and-MSO-2010-bug-tp3355881p3355881.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
