Re: [libreoffice-users] poor conversion of .docx files

lör 2011-04-09 klockan 04:50 -0700 skrev David Hanson:
> Hello.  I've been exclusively a Linux user for more than 10 years.  Unfortunately  practically 
> all of the undergraduates I teach are still windoze droids, so I have to grade their papers in 
> .docx format now, and I don't have a windoze machine to do it on.
>
> The problem is that somehow Bill has found a way to make .docx files containing graphs impossible 
> for LibreOffice, OpenOffice, or odfconverter to handle.  See attached example.  The original 
> version of this file (before I redacted the names and saved it from libreoffice) definitely 
> contains embedded graphs probably imported from EXCEL. But nothing at all shows up in libreoffice 
> 3.3.2 after the student's headings "Part A: Graph " and so forth.  Openoffice 3.1 and 
> odfconverter give the same result.
>
> Is there any insight out there?  Conversion from .doc format works better, but as true windoze 
> droids these students can barely cope with instructions like "save your file in .doc format 
> before turning it in".
>
> Thanks.

I would ask them to export their work to the PDF format, unless you need to edit them. There is a 
Linux version of Adobe Reader, if Evince won't open the documents.      


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Best regards

Johnny Rosenberg


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