More coal on the fire

[Matt Alexander]

If you find areas for improvement, I hope that you're sending these to the
developers so they can be fixed in future versions.
~M


On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Alan Dayley wrote:

> I also have found that Open Office is not perfect, with DOC or XLS files.
> Things out of the ordinary, like odd input boxes or lesser used math
> functions do not translate that well.
>
> On the other hand, the developers are to be commended for doing as well as
> they have in getting a program to mostly work with a proprietary and closed
> format.  I would not want the task of reverse engineering the MS DOC format!
> I've done stuff like that before but not with a format that complex.
>
> Alan
>
> On Monday 16 September 2002 07:55 pm, Darrell Shandrow wrote:
> > Hi Fred,
> >
> > Unfortunately, I am not quite convinced with respect to Open Office.  Some
> > of my colleagues have sent me Open Office documents which have been
> > converted to Microsoft Word format, and they have lacked some structural
> > elements which they would have contained if they had been created using
> > Microsoft Word.  I am a blind person, and document accessibility to screen
> > readers is paramount.  At this time, when it comes to accessibility, MS has
> > it all over Sun.  Currently, even the Windows version of Open Office isn't
> > accessible to screen readers.
> >
> >    Thanks.
>
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