On 11/20/2012 02:02 PM, Don C. Myers wrote:
On 11/20/2012 01:17 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
On 11/20/2012 10:21 AM, M Henri Day wrote:
2012/11/19 Paolo Debortoli <[email protected]>
hi all. i had the same problem receving via email from an office
.docx
files. when I try to import the file in libreoffice it crashes and
does
not allow to import in any way. the solution I found is to open
such file
with gwoffice (google office app, you need a google account
connected to
use it) and save it in odt format always via gwoffice (then it is
exactly
in lo format). I think that opening such files shouldn't be very
difficult (I am not a programmer at all).
paolo
I must say I find this odd, as I've not experienced similar problems in
Writer. To test, I booted from my usual Ubuntu 12.04 into Windows 7 and
created two .docx documents in MS Office Word 2010 (Swedish
version), one
the first strophe of a Swedish poem, the other a line from Thomas
Paine's *Common
Sense*. I had no problem opening either one in LibreOffice (Swedish
Version
3.6.3.2 (Build ID: 58f22d5)) ; to test further I sent the latter as an
attachment to a Gmail message to a friend in India who has an
English-language version of LibreOffice (3.5.4.2 Build ID:
350m1(Build:2)).
He also had no trouble in opening and reading the attachment. Both
these
two documents were, of course, extremely simple, no embedded
hyperlinks or
tables, etc, but for documents of this nature I am unable to
reproduce any
difficulties in opening .docx files in recent versions of
LibreOffice. From
what I understand, however, things can become more complicated when
links
or tables are embedded in documents or when other LibreOffice
functions,
like Calc or Impress are used....
Henri
I has a lady send me a .docx file of a "poster" that was very
complex. It would have been easier for it to have been created with
Publisher, CorelDraw, Inkscsape, or other non-wordprocessor, but she
used Word and .docx. It did not load up properly with 3.5.4 or was
it 3.5.5. I told her that the poster should have been sent as a PDF
and then she agreed, and resent it out to everyone as a PDF file.
That is when I saw how complex it was. I would not have tried
anything like that in any wordprocessorlet alone saved it in .docx.
Now that MSO 2013's .docx format will not be completely compatible
with the 2010 or 2007 versions of that format, FOSS users will have
as much problems as users of earlier version of MSO. Also, I have
read that if you want to get all of the package to work correctly,
you have to use MSO2013 with Win8. It was designed to work with Win8
and seems not to work completelywith Win7. I also read somewhere
that you should not even try to use it on Vista or XP, since the
testers had big problems trying to install the 2013 beta on those
earilier OSs.
I really think MSO changes the specifications for the OOXML formats
so you are "required" to upgrade to the newest version of MSO to get
the format to work properly. Forced upgrading as a way to getmore
money from their users is as bad as their new "forced" "software
rental" policies/penalties on the users. Oh well, I do digress.
So, the best solution is to try to get users to use the non-"OOXML"
formats so any version of MSO 2000-2013 can use the files properly.
Then there will be no problems with and FOSS office package users as
well.
I agree totally. Any Word Perfect document ever created can be read by
the latest Word Perfect Version. The European Commission for
Interoperable Systems published a report in 2009 about Microsoft. A
link to the report can be found here:
http://www.ecis.eu/2009/03/microsofts-history-of-anticompetitive-behaviour-and-consumer-harm/
For the full report, click on the "click here" text at the end of the
paragraph.
Don
Thanks, I will read it later. Just downloaded the PDF file.
Europe seems to be more willing to "go against" MS and their policies
and pushings into other places that they should not go. The Library of
Congress, for a few months, forced users to get a MS Word reader for
MS-Word-2007 since they were publishing "required documents" in the new
OOXML format. The documents we by law required to be freely accessible
to all US users without needing to buy anythingto read them. That
lasted a few months or so till someone high up in the government decided
to act and stop the publishing of these documents - that were normally
in the non-OOXML or earlier formats - in the newly created OOXML formats.
I wish the US and our state governments would be willing to end the
contracts with MS for their products. MS is a big lobbying group over
here so "we" need them to the point that our judges' rulings would be
either ignored or overturned for the "good of the nation's security".
Almost anything is legal if it is in the "Nation's Security Interests",
even things thatare against a person's Constitutionally guaranteed rights.
We need to force MS out of politics since a software company should not
dictate government policies. That is one reason that the mandates
towards using FOSS packages are ignored so easily.
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