Hi :) Sadly it's not possible to avoid being a fundamentalist with regards to this issue. Avoiding being a fundamentalist for one means tacitly encouraging the blocking of it by the dominant one. People are so unaware of their even being a choice that by not spreading knowledge of ODF people are forcing others to use the other. Regards from Tom :)
On 25 February 2014 16:26, Pedro <pedl...@gmail.com> wrote: > nabbler wrote >> Good summary, worth more than 2 ยข! :) > > ;) > > > nabbler wrote >>> 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". > > Not really. PDF which is an ubiquitous file format also has had support for > font embedding for years. All modern OSes support TrueType and OpenType > fonts. I think this is mostly related to the copyright licenses of the fonts > which is more problematic in editable files than in fundamentally > non-editable files (like PDF) > > > nabbler wrote >> and ignoring m$ fans (some paid by m$ perhaps?) would help by reducing >> that evolution time... > > It's complicated :) If you want to attract large companies who want to > migrate, at least the Import filter needs to be nearly perfect. I think the > developers are wise enough to know when to ignore cheap CEOs who just want a > replacement for their Office suite for free while still demanding to have > perfect MS format Export... > > In any case LO (or any ODF based suite) can not afford to become an island. > Not even Microsoft can :) That is why they pretend to support ODF (while at > the same time most ODF files not created/modified in MS Office are either > "corrupted" or will be "missing features"...) > > At the end of the day: it's better not to be a fundamentalist ;) > > Take care! > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Defending-ODF-against-OOXML-in-the-UK-tp4098594p4098967.html > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > 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 -- 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
