On 11-Dec-2002/17:11 -0600, Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We don't even need to start the war on my not ask your users to save all
their documents in portable formats. Most don't know how - as far as
they're concerned, the native Microsoft formats are all there are.
FWIW, the best way to
On 11-Dec-2002/15:36 -0800, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think longer term, the solution is not to work with them, but
design a good open format. But before we even try to impose this
format on the rest of the world, the open source/free software
suites need to support it fully. Sofar I haven't
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:46:35AM -0500, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
On 11-Dec-2002/17:11 -0600, Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We don't even need to start the war on my not ask your users to save all
their documents in portable formats. Most don't know how - as far as
they're concerned,
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 10:30:25AM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote:
We need good conversion tools, that's all there is to it. We need to
play in their world, not assume world domination by making them change.
Have the issue play backwards. Send them documents in OpenOffice native
formats. If they
On 12-Dec-2002/10:30 -0600, Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 09:46:35AM -0500, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
On 11-Dec-2002/17:11 -0600, Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We don't even need to start the war on my not ask your users to save all
their documents in portable
On December 12, 2002 11:30 am, Ed Wilts wrote:
We need good conversion tools, that's all there is to it. We need to
play in their world, not assume world domination by making them change.
it may sound naive, but it's not. how else can we expect people to stop using
proprietary formats? wait
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From: gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 2:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Decent Word / Excel Conversion: Not yet?
On December 12, 2002 11:30 am, Ed Wilts wrote:
We need good conversion tools, that's all there is to it. We need to
play in their world
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 08:30, Ed Wilts wrote:
That's naive. The vast majority of us have absolutely no control over
somebody else's desktops. What if you decided to start sending me MS
Word documents? Are you going to let me change your desktop? What
about my customers?
We need good
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 15:32, Michael A. Peters wrote:
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 08:30, Ed Wilts wrote:
That's naive. The vast majority of us have absolutely no control over
somebody else's desktops. What if you decided to start sending me MS
Word documents? Are you going to let me change
, 2002 2:54 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Decent Word / Excel Conversion: Not yet?
You are contradicting your own statement. Just because you
want to use a
particular format, does not mean every one should change over to that
format. The solution is compatibility and conversion tools
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James Francis wrote:
| Raj, Well-worded.
| Like it or not, and trust me I hate it, Microsoft Word is a standard. For
| what it is worth, I receive .lwp documents from IBM all the time. I can't
| open them up in OpenOffice and I can't open them up
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 16:08, Rick Johnson wrote:
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James Francis wrote:
| Raj, Well-worded.
| Like it or not, and trust me I hate it, Microsoft Word is a standard. For
| what it is worth, I receive .lwp documents from IBM all the time. I can't
Well, my best option until now has been using rtf format rather than M$
Word format. Still not perfect, and I have some problems with tables of
content, but it is better than trying to load a native Word format.
-Manuel.
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 07:22:17PM +, 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.).
What can we say? When you're right, you're right.
Ed Wilts said:
What can we say? When you're right, you're right. There are no good open
source translators out there - not even for MS Word. Every one I've
tested failed on trivial documents, and I gave up. Not even
StarOffice on Windows was anywhere close to usable a couple of months ago
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 ?
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