[ale] A Real Sad Loss for Open Source in the Atlanta Area

[Greg Freemyer]

I opened a bugzilla at opensuse which in turn was referenced by a bug at
freedesktop (product: libreoffice).

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31036

The bug is because the latest version of OOo can't import a graphic from a
*.docx file.

I've seen all the statements about how compatible OOo is to Word, but I just
don't see it yet when something this basic is missing.

I also happened to edit a affidavit today that I was preparing with
oowriter.  It started with a case style (a semi-complex table used in legal
docs to layout some text only info at the start of the doc.).  I made
minimal edits to the normal text portion of the doc and then saved it.  When
a coworker opened it in Word, the case style was destroyed and had to
deleted and brought in from another word doc.

To date, my efforts to incorporate OOo into a corp. environment where others
are using Word and saving docs in the proprietary Word format(s) are just
not succeeding.

I'm basically confused by the claims of success I see here vs. my real world
failures.

Greg

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>wrote:
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>> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 14:53 -0400, Rich DeMARS wrote:
>> > Having worked for the government myself in the past, I can see and
>> > conclude that same point stated below as being one of the issues here.
>> > Which also leads me to consider just how committed the County was
>> > truly to success of the switch.  I just wonder why there was not more
>> > training involved and why open source groups (like the ALE) where not
>> > engaged for assistance.
>> > But the other issue that really shines out to me here is the power of
>> > document formats and many of their closed nature.  As much as open
>> > source is important, so is open formats.  And I see the lack of open
>> > and inter-changeable formats in environments today being a great
>> > reason as to the failure of such endeavorers.
>>
>> I get DOC and XLS documents from people who use Word and Excel all the
>> time.
>>
>> I have yet to receive a document that required more than a minute or two
>> of touch-up before being æsthetic, and all of them were functional.
>>
>>        --- Mike
>>
>>
>>
> I hate to say it, but tell me what the door in the attached looks like?
>
> I had to open in office to tell.
>
>
>


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