You will definitely run into differences in the rendering of complex documents. But Microsoft, with their love for proprietary complexity, is the main problem here, and you can avoid most of that by generating your documents in Kingsoft (or whatever) and saving them as .doc files. I ended up staying with OpenOffice, but the others work fine.
The problem is consuming documents that come FROM others and which are native MS Office documents. OO will not display them correctly if they have more than mildly complex formats, and nobody wants to--or should have to--mess around "correcting" them before they can be sent back to the source.
.doc is a proprietary MS format and OO handles that one just fine. The problem is not that .docx is a proprietary MS format. The problem is that the OO people do not really care whether people can use their product interactively with others. They're happy with what they do and have no motivation to change it.
Ohh... if only there were some way to, oh, I don't know, perhaps introduce some sort of motivation for them to do that. Just thinking off the top of my head here, but maybe--hey.. what if perhaps there was some way to convey something to them that they value, in return for them producing a product that works the way I want it to, even if doing so does not carry any intrinsic value for them? Hm.. Let me see.. seems to me there was something... something that works like that. Would it be.. um.. bitcoins? ..No..that's not it.. uh.. something.. I think it starts with an "m".. M.. muh.. muh...
No, I just can't seem to think of it... Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
