On 11/02/2008 02:34 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
However, you are much better off exchanging PDF documents with users
who do not use Open Office. Although Open Office does support the .doc
and .docx formats to an extent, there are small formatting differences
between the two. The next service pack will add .odf funcionality to
MS Word, but I do not expect it to use OOo as a reference
implementation so there will be slight formatting differences there as
well.
There are many, many reasons to produce MS Office documents rather than
PDFs. In some cases, you might be sharing those documents. I've also
seen some really bad renderings to pdf. While teaching some courses, I
posted by lectures (written in OO.o Impress) as PDFs, and some did not
render well at all. However since 2.0 there has been a much better
compatibility between OO.o and MS Office. I still have one bug (I need
to bugzilla). As a contractor, I need to fax in a time sheet. The
template is from Excel. One problem is when copying the date components
(month, day, year) in Excel it correctly formats as mm/dd/yy. In OO.o
2.4 and 3.0 it formats as mm/dd/00. The bottom line is there will
always be some issues.
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