RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

Hi :)
MS don't implement their standard in the way that they wrote they would.  Having set a standard 
anyone that follows that standard is guaranteed to produce things that are a little wonky when 
opened in MS Office.  LO devs work at getting LO's implementation as wonky as MS's but the 
wonkiness is the unknown factor.  
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Sun, 11/9/11, Anthony Papillion <anthony@cryptofreaks.tk> wrote:

From: Anthony Papillion <anthony@cryptofreaks.tk>
Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?
To: "LibreOffice Mailing List" <users@global.libreoffice.org>
Date: Sunday, 11 September, 2011, 21:15


> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:05:01 -0400
> From: donmyers@myersfarm.com
>
> My assumption was that the word secret was used where it should have
> been propriety. But certainly Microsoft wants to prevent as much
> compatibility as possible.

Perhaps I did use 'secret' when I should have used 'proprietary' instead. However, I still have to 
question how Microsoft can 'prevent compatibility' if the file LibreOffice produces is an exact 
copy of what Microsoft Office produces or if the files MSO produces are all in a well documented 
format, why LibO still has problems handling complex files.

It certainly can't be a programming issue since having the documentation of the filetype makes 
reading and writing them a snap. So why do we still have problems with MSO files?

Anthony
                           
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