Richard Cleaveland wrote:
CPHennessy wrote:
On Fri December 30 2005 13:42, Richard Cleaveland wrote:
Well, I gave it a good try, and I *think* it got submitted.
Your principle that Writer should correctly open any file that Word will
surprises me a little. I note that FireFox has taken a different view -
that it will conform to standards, even if IE will not (and thereby IE
works ok with pages that were written by MS software that creates the
non-standard pages). But of course I guess there isn't any standard for
Word files, is there? Unless one considers RTF, and even there I
understand that the specs are just vague enough that conformance is a
bit dicey.
The issue is standards. IE has a problem with standards but that is a
Microsoft problem. The reason for standards is so they are open and
usable by anybody that wants to comply. Think about how many things
depend on standards that you use every day. Look at the issue with
Java and MS's own version.
Microsoft wants to control things so they try hiding their "features"
and license organizations to use their features. This is their right
but it is also becoming a headache for them as organizations are
looking at using more and more open standards.
At present, all the compatibility issues with Word are reverse
engineering issues. Hopefully the new MS open XML won't be so
restrictive and will allow OOo to write code to work with the documents.
BTW when I was earlier working on the problem I provided files to
Pitonyak but it turned out he couldn't recreate the problem because he
was using Linux and my system depends on windows directory structures.
He did provide a macro which could presumably run down the file and
correct the images while they were in Writer, but I really haven't the
expertise to properly apply it (although I have written Word and WP
macros in the past).
Regards, and thanks for taking an interest,
Dick
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