On 12/23/2010 9:43 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
When you use any format except ODF, there is a conversion
process that has to take place, and conversions always
introduce the possibility of some problems.
My experience with these conversion is that the problems
arise with images and tables. They do not always convert
correctly to the earlier MS Office file formats. I do not
have MS office program more recent than Office 2003 and Word
Viewer 2007, so I cannot confirm anything about the
conversion to more recent formats.
I do confirm Barbara's remarks about PDF conversion. My
experience is that anything I have put into an native OO.o
format appears in a PDF export exactly as it appears in the
OO.o format.
Beyond this, I find that if I want to further modify the
file after saving in PDF format, I save in the hybrid
odt-pdf format, which requires the "Sun PDF extension". The
saved file still has the pdf extension, and will be opened
by your pdf viewer if double clicked, but it can be opened
and edited in OO.o. The OO.o codes are embedded in the pdf
code, and the OO.o and PDF codes are ignored, respectively
by PDF viewer and the OO.o program.
--David Teague
