[ale] OpenOffice Draw for Site Maps?

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Fri Jan 30 14:34:45 EST 2009


On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:

> I've only had to abandon OpenOffice.org twice. The first time was when
> designing a poster. This is actually easy to do in Powerpoint if you set
> the scale properly, but Impress thought this was a crazy thing to do.
> The second (ongoing) time was when a professor insisted we exchange
> files in WordPerfect format. As far as I can tell only WordPerfect does
> that. My email entreaties about open document standards fell on deaf
> ears.

Check out http://go-oo.org/ . It's a patched OpenOffice that can read
wordperfect files. I have a doctor client with 10 years of wp crap and
go-oo has no problem with them (converting them to odf for
future-proofing!).


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James P. Kinney III


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