OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-11 Thread Greg Madden
I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my work, archived documents & templates this is working out better, for my use scenario, than LO ver 3.4.x and later. There are differences between AOO & LO, significant enough to warrant having a choice in Debian of which one

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-11 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 01:09:10PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my work, > archived documents & templates this is working out better, for my use > scenario, > than LO ver 3.4.x and later. That's interesting. Do you mean there ar

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-11 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 11 March 2012 3:27:51 pm Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 01:09:10PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my > > work, archived documents & templates this is working out better, for my > > use scenario, than LO ver

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread Chris Davies
Greg Madden wrote: > 1. About 'file open' : Someone mentioned LO has a stricter compliance > with ? document format standards, anecdotal experience shows some > MS docs do not open in LO that do open in AOO. Not really an area of > concern here, I rarely get a MS document sent to me. I've found

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread CamaleĆ³n
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:09:10 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my > work, archived documents & templates this is working out better, for my > use scenario, than LO ver 3.4.x and later. What are those improvements you're seeing? > Ther

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Greg Madden wrote: > There are differences between AOO & LO, significant enough to warrant having a > choice in Debian of which one to use. > What are the significant differences that you have perceived? I might have to maintain a page outlining the differences if t

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 06:36:52PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > Someone will have to step up and put the work in to package AOO, for the > > choice to exist "in Debian". > > The Apache OO folks do provide .deb files with desktop integration. In my > tests > these work well enough on a Debi

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:00:26AM +, Chris Davies wrote: > documents. At one point I found that I could open templated documents > with LO but in order to print them I had to save then in native OOo > format and reload them in AOO. Fortunately that state of affairs lasted This is nonsense. Th

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-12 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 12 March 2012 11:30:19 am Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Greg Madden wrote: > > There are differences between AOO & LO, significant enough to warrant > > having a choice in Debian of which one to use. > > What are the significant differences that you have perceived?

Fwd: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-13 Thread Brad Alexander
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Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-13 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 11/03/12 22:09, Greg Madden wrote: > I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my work, > archived documents& templates this is working out better, for my use scenario, > than LO ver 3.4.x and later. > > There are differences between AOO& LO, significant enough t

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-13 Thread Chris Davies
Chris Davies wrote: > I've found the converse to be true, particularly with templated > documents. At one point I found that I could open templated documents > with LO but in order to print them I had to save then in native OOo > format and reload them in AOO. Fortunately that state of affairs las

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 04:09, Greg Madden wrote: > Look at the referenced bug reports, there are attachments to the reports > showing > what has happened to my templates & archived docs. others have noticed this > also. > Thanks, I will start enumerating the differences between OpenOffice and

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:36:58PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Thanks, I will start enumerating the differences between OpenOffice and > LibreOffice here: > http://dotancohen.com/eng/difference_openoffice_libreoffice.html That's going to be one hell of a moving target. What audience are you tryin

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 16:45, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:36:58PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Thanks, I will start enumerating the differences between OpenOffice and >> LibreOffice here: >> http://dotancohen.com/eng/difference_openoffice_libreoffice.html > > That's going to b

Re: OT Apache Open Office

2012-03-14 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 16:45, Jon Dowland wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:36:58PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> Thanks, I will start enumerating the differences between OpenOffice and >>> LibreOffice here: >>> http://dotancohen.com/eng/d