Re: [libreoffice-users] MS Office -> LibreOffice (compatibility problem)

You are right Michel, but is simpler for other people to send pdf files 
(using PdfCreator for example) than installing other software like 
LibreOffice. In many cases company policy prevent users to install 
software not approved from the IT office...
If there are some difficult with many collegues... with suppliers or 
customers is a "mission impossible"   ;-)
Doc (and other proprietary file format) is the evil... because if your 
sender use Word 2007 and you have Word 2000... you need to upgrade your 
software or you are unable to read the document. It's obvious... but not 
for all the people. Require odf files from your senders is very very 
difficult... but it would be the best solution



Il 03/11/2010 15.26, Michel Gagnon ha scritto:
> I see this recommendation "send sources as .pdf files" very often. 
> Quite frankly, I really don't consider it a solution, except for legal 
> and archival purposes. Why ?
> 1. It is another private format. Not as closed as it used to be, but 
> still relevant on the "good will" of Adobe. I have yet to find a pdf 
> file reader for Windows that does an equivalent job with font hinting 
> and the like.
> 2. It screems "look but don't touch". Except for minor modifications 
> using clunky techniques, the document cannot be modified and is much 
> harder to annotate than a .doc or .odf document.


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