Matt McKenzie wrote: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> When I need to send a draft document to someone else for review and >> comments >> I save it as a Word97 .doc file. When comments come back, I'll sometimes >> reconvert the document to .odt. Doing this with OO.o-3.x causes all sorts >> of >> formatting changes that did not occur with earlier versions. >> >> When I use my OO.o letter template the document has the letterhead first >> page and continuation pages with a different header after that. What OO.o >> now does in the translation to .doc is put the letterhead on each page; it >> totally looses the different page styles. >> >> Also, it now inserts random spaces between words and, in a couple of >> cases, within a word. >> >> This is retrogressive behavior. It's time wasting and a PITA to have to >> go >> through each line to look for random changes. What a shame that it's >> becoming less of a collaborative writing tool than it used to be. >> >> Rich >> > While I agree these kind of problems can be a PITA, and OO.o is not perfect, > it is still a good program. > > My wife is using OO.o on a G4 Mac running OSX 10.5, and has some problems, > but overall it works. > I think part of the problem (slow, occasional crashes) can be due to running > Leopard on a G4 Powerbook instead of an Intel MacBook/MBPro, and the fact > that OO.o on OSX is not a native GUI app, but there is a port (Neo Office), > which uses X11 instead of Carbon/Cocoa. > > What purpose is it to convert between .odt and .doc? IMHO, if you are > working with people in the M$ world, just keep it as .doc, and if you are > working with people who use OO.o, keep .odt. > Converting between them has never been a slam dunk, and that only > exacerbates the problem. This is not entirely the fault of OO.o, we can > blame the ever changing .doc standard for part of it. > > YMMV > > ---------- > Matt M. > LinuxKnight > Rich Shepard I am not into blaming, so I shall stay out of that, but I should like to add my vote to that of Matt McKenzie, as my experience would seem to collaborate his - and I run Linux only - no dual boot or VM.
To avoid MSW making hash of an OO.o file, or the other way around, I often passed it on as a PDF - possibly not a productive suggestion in your case? However, my daughter (and MS user, and college professor of Math) uses LaTex/Tex, and I have found LyX is available on a number of platforms including MS - possibly also not a productive suggestion in your case, as it might imply a learning curve for your reviewer(s). Sigh. That does seem to leave keeping it in MSW format for simplicity - hope some of this helps, or at least does no harm Regards Fred James PS: Even HTML doesn't always help as MS slipped off on their own there too. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
