Examples of OpenOffice.org failure to render MS Office documents compatibly

[Wataru Tenga]

OpenOffice.org, as I have said numerous times, is not viable as a
replacement for MS Office if your customer provides you with Office
documents and expects them to be returned as such.

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/20090630/tc_infoworld/81302

Some vivid illustrations of the problems are shown in the above article.
And that is English-English. When Japanese enters the picture it gets
worse.

If this problem were solved, Linux would suddenly become a viable option
for translators in most respects. Unfortunately, the OpenOffice people
seem more interested in adding features than in improving compatibility.

Wataru Tenga

[Kevin Kirton]

Wataru Tenga wrote:
> Unfortunately, the OpenOffice people
> seem more interested in adding features than in improving compatibility.
>

I don't know if it's true, but I've always assumed it has been in
Microsoft's interests to delay and hinder compatibility. I know they've
come along some way recently, but it was more that they were dragged
along, wasn't it?

Kevin Kirton
Australia

[Keith Wilkinson]

www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2350227,00.asp
www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/973472.mspx

[Kevin Kirton]

Keith,
The articles you cited merely say that there are security issues with MS Word. That's well known. Was there some other point?

[Rodolfo Raya]

Hi,

I currently use MS Office 2007 (with Service Pack 2) to save Word
files in OpenOffice's format. Converting this way preserves the
formatting a bit better. Unfortunaely, this means that you can't
switch to Linux.

FWIW, after working mainly on Linux for 5 years, I now work on Windows
Vista or Mac OS X 99% of the time.

Regards,
Rodolfo
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Rodolfo M. Raya <rmr...@maxprograms.com>
http://www.maxprograms.com