Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: RTF support

On 2011-06-28, Ernest Kurtz wrote:
> On Jun 28, 2011, at 5:45 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
>
> > Hi :)
> > LibreOffice is more highly developed, it is developing faster and has a more 
> > certain future.  Substantial clean-up of the code has made it about 30% smaller 
> > so it's faster to download and since it is more streamlined, hopefully it runs a 
> > bit faster.  
> As one who uses only Writer on LO and OO, roughly on alternate days,
> never at the same time, I find LO to be less stable, crashing about
> every other time.  OO crashes are rare, maybe one in ten use-days.
> But I keep hoping, as it appears there is more current work on LO.

It is expectable that LibO is more crash-prone: it has new features that
aren't as deeply tested as the rest of the code.

Also, the code cleanup may cause issues itself.

Keep your hope, more work means even if LibO has new issues, they'll be
fixed. 

The best you can do to help that happen without looking at the code is
(attempt to) indentify what triggers each crash and fill a bug report if
there's none yet.

If it's your first time filling a bug report, this may help:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport

("identify" means not filling "Writer crashed here!!!" reports without
some more information, like:
 - step-by-step instructions of what to do to raise the crash
 - stack trace
 - some office document (like a RTF file!) that causes a crash

That is, something that makes it easier to chase the problem.)



> BTW, I save all files in RTF. 

Please make sure you always keep the "main work copy" in OpenDocument
Format. Some other formats aren't completely implemented, may have some
issues. 

Dunno about RTF, but this is the case with Microsoft's Office Open XML.

Also, even if the format is 100% supported, it may not support some ODF
feature used by LibO.

-- 
Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

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