Jim Allan wrote the following on 5/21/2008 8:51 AM:
That there are more than one way to do bullets in both Word and Writer
doesn’t help. I suspect that the underlying structure between the two
sections of the column is not the same. Note, this is not an attempt
to excuse the incorrect translation into Writer, but to understand it.
What would be interesting to do would be to load this newsletter into
other products that claim to interpret MS Word formats and compare the
results. What does WordPerfect do, for example? Unfortunately I have
no access to such products
Jim,
I just did a quick comparison between the 3 word processors by jumping
from machine to machine here in the office. I compared Word 2007, OOo
2.4 and WordPerfect X3. WordPerfect did a pitiful job of importing.
WordPerfect did manage to get the bullets the same size but the first
one was stretched somewhat into an oblong shape. I took screen shots of
the 3 with the newsletter loaded. You can take a look at the results
here: http://www.nativewinds.montana.com/downloads/EP_May_19_2008_Test.odt
Jerry Clancy wrote the following on 5/21/2008 10:06 AM:
WordPerfect, BTW, has ceased to be a significant product and is almost
never encountered anymore, at least by me.
Jerry,
We regularly work with several lawyers all over the US. Every one of
them submit their documents to us in WordPerfect format. It must be a
lawyer thing? That is why it was necessary for us to purchase
WordPerfect in the first place. Word and OpenOffice simply do not do a
good job of importing those documents although Word does do a better job
at it than OpenOffice.
What we have found is that when it comes to complex documents, none of
the three do a very good job at importing formats other than their own.
--
Jack
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