On 24/02/2014, Pedro <pedl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jim > > > Jim Seymour wrote >> This is all rather unbecoming, don't you guys think? > > Not really. This is just the two extremist sides of the ODF vs MS-formats. > There are indeed some users (not Tanstaafl) who just want a free office > suite that perfectly supports MS-formats (and don't care about free file > formats as long as they can get the software for free as in beer). And > there > are the ODF fundamentalists (like e-letter) that say that LO should only > support MS-formats for Import and even so that developers shouldn't waste > too much time on that :) >
Good summary, worth more than 2 ยข! :) > The problem here, as I see it, is that ODF is still in it's infancy. E.g. > only recently ODF (under LibreOffice 4.1) started supporting font embedding > which is an essential feature for anyone working with vector graphics, > custom presentations or simply elegant text documents. MS supports font > embedding since Word 6.0 (back in 1993!!!) > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188324 > Isn't this issue affected by the fact that different operating systems have different default fonts? If so, it would explain the relative ease that the mono-platform m$ can solve this "problem". > LO and ODF are evolving quite fast but there is still a long way to go. > and ignoring m$ fans (some paid by m$ perhaps?) would help by reducing that evolution time... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
