[discuss] Windows OO won't open file format that Ubuntu OO will.

[Gordon]

Very Odd.

Open Office 3.1.1 installed on Windows 7 has no importer for MS Works
document.
Open Office 3.1 bundled with Ubuntu 9.10 HAS.

Why the difference? (It's a bit irritating to say the least!)

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[Sigrid Carrera]

Hi Gordon,

Am Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:25:34 +0000
schrieb Gordon <gbpl...@gmail.com>:

> Very Odd.
>
> Open Office 3.1.1 installed on Windows 7 has no importer for MS Works
> document.
> Open Office 3.1 bundled with Ubuntu 9.10 HAS.
>
> Why the difference? (It's a bit irritating to say the least!)

As far as I know, Ubuntu and other Distributions use the go-ooo branch
instead of the "original" version made available through SUN. The
go-ooo version has some extra features, that give you more options
(like what you discovered here or reusing Excel macros...), but it is
considered to be more "testing" aka "unstable", where as with the
original version you have less features, but (hopefully) a more stable
version.

After some time of testing and analysing the effects of the new patches
to the existing code, the features will go into the stable version
itself.

Sigrid

[Clarke Rice]

Hi Gordon,

One version is probably the OpenOffice.org version, compiled by Sun.

The other (with Works import) is most likely the Go-oo.org version, compiled by Novell and
including a few pieces of code that for reasons best known to the people involved, are not
accepted in the 'mainstream' version yet.

Clarke

On 5 Feb 2010 at 9:25, Gordon wrote:

> Very Odd.
>
> Open Office 3.1.1 installed on Windows 7 has no importer for MS Works
> document.
> Open Office 3.1 bundled with Ubuntu 9.10 HAS.
>
> Why the difference? (It's a bit irritating to say the least!)
>
>

[Gordon]

On 05/02/2010 11:54, Clarke Rice wrote:
> Hi Gordon,
>
> One version is probably the OpenOffice.org version, compiled by Sun.
>
> The other (with Works import) is most likely the Go-oo.org version, compiled by Novell and
> including a few pieces of code that for reasons best known to the people involved, are not
> accepted in the 'mainstream' version yet.
>

Thanks for that - another interesting "feature" then is that the Go-oo
that I downloaded to specifically open wps documents (Works) on Windows
opens them with the font by default in strike-through and underlined!
The Ubuntu version of this opens them in the font in which they were
written?

Very odd again......

[Gordon]

Clarke Rice wrote:
> Hi Gordon,
>
> One version is probably the OpenOffice.org version, compiled by Sun.
>
> The other (with Works import) is most likely the Go-oo.org version, compiled by Novell and
> including a few pieces of code that for reasons best known to the people involved, are not
> accepted in the 'mainstream' version yet.
>

Interesting - the OO in Ubuntu 9.10 IS by Sun yet it has the Works
document importer - the Sun OO on Windows does NOT.....

[Peter Hillier-Brook]

On 07/02/2010 15:50, Gordon wrote:
> Clarke Rice wrote:
>> Hi Gordon,
>>
>> One version is probably the OpenOffice.org version, compiled by
>> Sun. The other (with Works import) is most likely the Go-oo.org
>> version, compiled by Novell and including a few pieces of code that
>> for reasons best known to the people involved, are not accepted in
>> the 'mainstream' version yet.
>>
>
> Interesting - the OO in Ubuntu 9.10 IS by Sun yet it has the Works
> document importer - the Sun OO on Windows does NOT.....

I think you will find that the copyright notices etc. are Sun, BUT the
product is in fact Novell's Go-oo variant. It certainly is on any virgin
installation of Ubuntu 9.10.

Peter HB

[RA Brown]

Gordon wrote:
> Clarke Rice wrote:
>> Hi Gordon,
>>
>> One version is probably the OpenOffice.org version, compiled by Sun.
>> The other (with Works import) is most likely the Go-oo.org version,
>> compiled by Novell and including a few pieces of code that for reasons
>> best known to the people involved, are not accepted in the
>> 'mainstream' version yet.
>>
>
> Interesting - the OO in Ubuntu 9.10 IS by Sun yet it has the Works
> document importer - the Sun OO on Windows does NOT.....
>

Check out http://go-oo.org/ for more information. There is a Windows
version available as well.

--
Andy