Hi :) The only way to ensure your DocX documents appear exactly the same on other people's machines is to make sure you use the same OS and the same version of MS Office as they are using. If you deal with a lot of different people and are not certain which versions each of them has then that means 3 different OSes (Xp, Win7 and Win8) and 4 different versions of MS Office (2007, 2010, 2013 and 365).
If you only have 2007 and they use 2013 then they just see you as being too cheap to get the newest version. You can probably get a cheap version of 2010 (because most people are using that one right now) but that still wont be quite good enough. In a few months you would still need to buy 2013 anyway because it's increasingly difficult to get any new machines with anything other than 2013 or 365 on. Editable formats look slightly different on different machines anyway. Different printers, different settings even if the same printer, and all sort of petty details come into play. Different versions of the same fonts, or automatic substitutions for different fonts in the same family and all sorts. There are 2 sorts of Pdfs. Nowadays we mostly use the semi-editable ones File - "Export to Pdf" which are more consistent between different machines, different OSes and different programs but still suffer the issue about fonts. The other way of generating a Pdf is File - Print - "Print to file" and set it to Pdf rather than Ps. Not all programs can do that and it also depends on having printer-drivers that support it. People will then probably grumble that they can't add comments, do Pdf forms that way and other 'problems'. However sending that sort of Pdf along with an editable format does ensure that people see the document exactly as intended AND get to edit it. So, there is a choice. Stick with MS Office and ensure that files will never look quite right and that you will always get the blame for not having quite the right version on the right OS and be constantly pushed into buying different versions and upgrading OS or accept that documents need a little flexibility in them. Regards from Tom :) On 27 October 2013 10:25, Gerald Pechoc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If I sum up the problems with docx documents and with LO in general, > best solution is to have a pc with linux and virtual box for running > WIN7 and original MS Office. > (a dual core processor and 4GB Ram is enough). > > If you earn your money with these docx then its on your side to adopt your > work flow . > You can not tell your customer to change his workflow. > > You will see you have a lot of problems less, doing so. > > Gerald > > > On 2013-10-27 01:23, e-letter wrote: > >> On 25/10/2013, baldwin linguas <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> It's ruining my business. >>> I'm losing clients, losing money, and I have a family to feed. >>> And I don't know what to do about it. >>> OpenOffice won't write to .docx, and LibreOffice messes them up. >>> >>> >> Perhaps you should compare the editing process using m$. Explain to a >> customer that you are going to send two versions of the document (the >> m$ edit version with name file1.docx and the LO edit version >> file2.docx; don't tell that LO is being used!) and ask for >> confirmation which version is received in better condition. >> >> Hopefully both versions will have changed, in which case you now have >> the opportunity to demonstrate to the customer that m$docx is a >> dubious format to use. >> >> If format loss never occurred with m$doc, ask the customer to send >> their documents to you in that format and presumably you can continue >> to use LO. However, LO is not an m$ clone and long term, you should be >> advising your customer to create odf documents using LO (additional >> consulting opportunity for you?) >> >> Surely in business, you should be flexible in order to get paid? Would >> you really refuse a € 1000 invoice because of the need to buy € 50 >> software? ;) >> >> Good luck. >> >> > -- > > ..............................**..............................**........ > Gerald Pechoc > Fedora User > email: [email protected] > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: > users+unsubscribe@global.**libreoffice.org<users%[email protected]> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/users/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe 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
