On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Ryan wrote: > I've been somewhat disappointed with the quality of the conversion of > Office documents into native *nix documents by most of the decent GUI apps > (Kword, Staroffice, Openoffice, etc.).
Are you expecting perfection ? There is no such thing! You want more ? What have _you_ done to solve your problems ? > Is everyone with me on this? It's a current barrier holding me back from a > complete dump of everything M$, and I know each new version of the MS Then don't. Is as simple as that! Is nobody's fault that _you_ choose to keep your docs in an closed and proprietary format. Nobody's forcing you to "dump of everything M$". > Office data formats incorporates an even more closed, corrupted, arcane > (and unstable!) system to prevent easy translation. Exactly, AFAIK even Microsoft's own Word had some troubles importing from one version to another. > I'm sure M$ doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of Samba, but if RedHat > really wants to take over the desktop market share, isn't decent document > import one of the first requirements in a sea of nonstop incoming .doc's on > email (another issue)? In other words: "If you want me to come on your side then Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!" Instead of moaning at what OpenOffice does not, better be amazed at what it _does_! AFAIK the Microsoft "doc" format is completely closed and there has been a tremendous effort to reverse engineer it and have what you already see. Cheers, -- Ryurick M. Hristev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Systems Manager University of Canterbury, Physics & Astronomy Dept., New Zealand -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
