Re: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility

Tom.

While I agree with Timi's case to some extent, let's move toward ending
bluescreens. While some pdf's may pose a problem, it's not always
the case.  MSO /is/ the problem.  I'm not prejudiced.  My stance is
simply based on experience!

That's why I have used an iMAC for so long.  Blue screens don't exist.
That's why I use NeoOffice, OpenOffice, and LibreOfffice, as well, for fun.

MSOffice is an undeserved burden!

I'm sorry - or perhaps not so sorry about my opinion.  iMac is a better
OS solution for people buying new computers.  They can easily install
Win if they think they have to which, for some reason, is inexplicable 
to me.

iMAC has an automatic, separate partition to do so, or for any OS other
than MS for that matter.  Use iMAC's Unix version or Ubuntu.
It doesn't matter.  MAC and Unix are better!

Glenn

On 4/18/11 7:45 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
>
> I agree.  You originally asked for help in this list over a week ago and no-one
> was able to give any good answers.  I gave a couple of pointers (i hope i
> remembered) and you put a lot of work into trying to get the slides working.  It
> is frustrating that we can't crack the ppt format yet.
>
> My usual work-around is to give the LibreOffice download link to people i send
> stuff too but it's not always a viable option.  It works for Adobe's .pdfs but
> doesn't work for us often enough.
>
> Apols and regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: "timi@iafrica.com"<timi@iafrica.com>
> To: wborean@gmail.com; users@libreoffice.org
> Sent: Mon, 18 April, 2011 8:26:08
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Compatibility
>
> Do not forget that MS Op Systems and Office apps gave us universal
> communication. Apart
>
> from the occasional blue screen, my XP runs without hassle. With Linux I get the
> feeling that
>
> like dedicated lovers of Series 2 Landrovers, you have to be seriously technical
> and keep
>
> your spanners with you at all times.
>
> I long for the day I can use LibO, knowing any document I create can be read by
> business
>
> colleagues world-wide on MS systems.
>
> Right now that's not the case, for example each time I send an Impress file to
> an MS PP user
>
> and it blows up it further demonstrates the gulf that currently exists between
> open and closed
>
> systems.
>
> Much as though I detest the latest edition of powerpoint and it's anal GUI, I
> have no choice
>
> but to use it.... I can't afford the time to write in Impress and then spend a
> day trying to make
>
> it work in PP.
>
> If you really want to hurt Uncle Bob then LibO must get it's act to together
> asap and ensure
>
> all LibO office apps are compatible to the extent that it allows trouble free
> document
>
> exchange between the open and closed systems.
>
> That way the MS user brigade will get confidence and hopefully may switch
> over... but until
>
> that day then Uncle Bob will rule the roost.
>
> Maybe someone can answer this?.... when will a LibO developer(s) focus on
> compatibility
>
> between MS and LibO.... and realise the way to sink MS is to prove reliability
> and
>
> compatibility in LibO.
>
> Meantime will someone please resolve why Impress (slides) with embedded sound
> files
>
> loses them when trying to convert to ppt? In addition why LibO Impress can
> sometimes lose
>
> the audiofile links (to MP3 files) all on it's own! without any help from PP,
>
> Meantime i try and use LibO as much as is practical but am forced to use MS
> office
>
> whenever it's for distribution.
>
> Sad.
>
>
> Timi




--
Glenn

"What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation."
T. S. Eliot, "Four Quartets"


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