Re: [libreoffice-marketing] US Journalist blames LibO for lost work

On Dec 13, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Italo Vignoli <italo.vignoli@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12/13/12 6:17 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
>
> > Good question about document length and how was he saving. What I read
> > did not have enough details to know truly what happened.
>
> Received both docs, unfortunately they are DOCX. Short doc, three pages,
> seems to be a format problem and not a content problem (the DOCX is
> damaged).

That was going to be my guess--saving into a foreign document format does seem to add potential for 
more problems. (At least historically; I haven't used the MS docx formats much in a long time.)

It's a shame his post was framed as a critique of LibreOffice, when it could just as easily have 
been a critique of the docx family of formats. (My headline would have been: "Why is docx such an 
unreliable format that I cannot manipulate it using the software tool of my choice without 
headaches?")

-Ben

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