Re: Notes re Open office & Linux/Win data

Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 09:57 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
>
>>Vaughn Treude wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I switch back and forth a lot, too. I do whatever I can on Linux, but
>>>most clients want me to develop on the dark side. I normally use Open
>>>Office, written to MS Word format or exported to PDF. But if they need
>>>a Word document that's pretty, I copy it to my wife's XP machine and
>>>check the document out in "real" Office. The transition ALWAYS messes
>>>up the formatting in one way or another.
>>
>>Is OOo version 2 any better than v1 in this regard?
>
> ----
> OOo 2 is better in almost every regard but this is too vague to
> accurately qualify an answer.
>
> .doc format files are proprietary Microsoft formats and to expect
> perfection while saving all your files in the .doc format is probably
> not realistic.
>
> I didn't bother installing Office on my Windows machine and use OOo 2 on
> both Linux and Windows desktop and it works superbly and I have been
> able to exhange .doc/.xls/.pps files with other users without issue and
> I think the v2 does a better job of rendering .doc files if that is the
> question.

It was the intended question.

> The assertion that Microsoft is the 'real' office or that one needs Word
> to make documents that are 'pretty' seems to indicate someone with
> prejudice or a < 2.00 version of OOo or both.
>
> Craig
>

Thanks for the 'review'.

--
-Eric 'shubes'

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