On 07/24/2015 08:25 AM, Stephen Harding wrote: > I've had no problem using Writer to create 200+ page documents with over a > hundred illustrations, annotated screen shots and drawings, imported from > Microsoft's Visio or LO Draw (LO Draw works best) and JPEG photos. Also > frequently use tables to show information. The documents have many, many > cross references embedded in them and four level table of contents at the > beginning. Impressive! :)
Peace... "The other" Tom > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Lewis [mailto:elderdanle...@gmail.com] > Sent: 24 July 2015 16:06 > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and "complex > documents" > > On 07/24/2015 09:31 AM, Tom Williams wrote: >> Greetings! With all of the recent discussion about Linux being a >> viable alternative to Windows, in today's computing world, I've read >> many comments about whether or not LibreOffice is a good alternative to MS >> Office. Some say yes, others say no. One common comment made by those >> who say no is Writer isn't good for "complex documents". For "basic" >> word processing, it's fine. >> >> Question: in what ways does LO Writer "fail" at editing or creating >> "complex documents"? >> >> Does anyone here have any experience with LO Writer and "complex >> documents"? If so, what has your experience been (either good or bad)? >> >> I know I haven't actually defined "complex documents" but I haven't >> seen any definition of that in any of the comments I've read either. >> So, I'll leave the definition up to whatever you would consider a >> "complex document". :) >> >> I've submitted on LO Writer bug where Writer didn't handle Word >> documents with pages with different page orientations well. I was >> helping a friend with a term paper and most of the paper was in >> portrait orientation, but a few pages were in landscape. LO Writer >> treated the entire document as either portrait or landscape but >> couldn't handle the mixture of both. I think that's been fixed, since I >> reported the bug. >> That's been about my only experience with a "complex document". >> >> Thanks! >> >> Peace... >> >> "The other" Tom > Is the problem with Complex documents really about the complexity, or > is it about using LO and?Word on a complex document? > I have been working with ODF Authors to create documentation for > OpenOffice.org and then LibreOffice. I consider these document to be complex. > > Dan > > -- > 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 > > -- /When we dance, you have a way with me, Stay with me... Sway with me.../ -- 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
