Re: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

2007-10-19 Thread Dag Wieers
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Brian Mathis wrote: > On 10/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:45:56 -0600 > > Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ... > > > Perhaps it would help if you pointed out to them that the Open > > > Document Format is an ISO stan

Re: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

2007-10-18 Thread Paul
On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 11:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:45:56 -0600 > Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > Perhaps it would help if you pointed out to them that the Open > > Document Format is an ISO standard for document storage and > > exchange, and sugge

RE: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

2007-10-18 Thread Dennis McLeod
: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice Miguel Medalha wrote: >> It is not only a problem for Linux users. Office 2003/XP/2000 etc can >> not read these files either. I know many Windows only shops who are >> pretty annoyed with the upgrade churn Microsoft force on them. > > A fi

Re: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

2007-10-18 Thread Morten Torstensen
Miguel Medalha wrote: It is not only a problem for Linux users. Office 2003/XP/2000 etc can not read these files either. I know many Windows only shops who are pretty annoyed with the upgrade churn Microsoft force on them. A filter that enables Office 2003 to open DocX files is available free

Re: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

2007-10-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Morten Torstensen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the basic problem with Linux! Over 1 million office 2007 users and they have to change their software because it does not conform to the "standard". It is not only a problem for Linux users. Office 2003/XP/2000

Re: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

2007-10-18 Thread Miguel Medalha
It is not only a problem for Linux users. Office 2003/XP/2000 etc can not read these files either. I know many Windows only shops who are pretty annoyed with the upgrade churn Microsoft force on them. A filter that enables Office 2003 to open DocX files is available free from Microsoft.

RE: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

2007-10-18 Thread James D. Parra
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here is the basic problem with Linux! Over 1 million office 2007 > users and they have to change their software because it does not > conform to the "standard". It is not only a problem for Linux users. Office 2003/XP/2000 etc can not read these files either. I know ma

Re: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

2007-10-18 Thread Morten Torstensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the basic problem with Linux! Over 1 million office 2007 users and they have to change their software because it does not conform to the "standard". It is not only a problem for Linux users. Office 2003/XP/2000 etc can not read these files either. I know many

Re: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

2007-10-18 Thread Brian Mathis
On 10/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:45:56 -0600 > Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > Perhaps it would help if you pointed out to them that the Open > > Document Format is an ISO standard for document storage and > > exchange, and suggest

Re: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

2007-10-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:54:26 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here is the basic problem with Linux! Over 1 million office 2007 > users and they have to change their software because it does not > conform to the "standard". What problem? A standard file format is just that: standard. If you ch

Re: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

2007-10-18 Thread centos
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:45:56 -0600 Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Perhaps it would help if you pointed out to them that the Open > Document Format is an ISO standard for document storage and > exchange, and suggest that they use that instead. ... Here is the basic problem with Linux!

Re: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

2007-10-18 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:03:54 +0100 (BST) first last <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By the way, telling your clients to upload again in a different format > is never an option, especially if the files are generated from > automated systems. They will just choose a different provider that > doesn't re

Re: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

2007-10-18 Thread first last
> Is that the new Microsoft format? Support for that is planned in > OpenOffice version 3, afaik. You should ask the creators of the > X-formats (x-files? hehe) .docx, .xlsx etc save in an earlier format > and send to you. Unfortunately, it's not that easy. At work we run an application that re

Re: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

2007-10-18 Thread Morten Torstensen
first last wrote: Has anyone got the docx plugin for OpenOffice 2 running in CentOS? Is that the new Microsoft format? Support for that is planned in OpenOffice version 3, afaik. You should ask the creators of the X-formats (x-files? hehe) .docx, .xlsx etc save in an earlier format and send

[CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

2007-10-18 Thread first last
Has anyone got the docx plugin for OpenOffice 2 running in CentOS? I have tried using the OpenOffice.org rpms and the ones in CentOS, but the plugin does not seem to work. To get it working I extracted the rpm from Novell, then copied the files to the registry/ folders and the Odfconverter to the