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

Hi :)
Yes, but it's very rare for a program to be 100% perfect.  Thigns tend to be reasonably close but 
just not close enough sometimes.  Of course with proprietary stuff it is usually difficult to get 
any bugs fixed but with OpenSource it's possible for 'anyone' to fix a bug.  

There are a lot of bug-reports about specific problems with MS formats and the list is getting 
worked through.  Usually the older formats (without the X at the end, eg doc rather than docx) work 
better because there has been longer to fix the bugs.  

LibreOffice doesn't completely conform to ODF standards either but it is trying to get closer.  
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, 21:41


> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:33:09 +0100
> From: tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk
>
> 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.

Hi Tom,

Ok, I can accept that. But then, aren't we back to a 'secret format'? If I implement a standard to 
write out a file a certain way and do it in another way that isn't documented then I'm not 
following the standard and, thus, my filetype is secret. The only way it's *not* secret is if they 
file is written to the standard without any deviations. 

At first, I thought 'ok, so this means MS has published a standard that other vendors can write to 
and MS will has implemented that standard (in addition to their secret one) so that MSO can always 
properly read other vendor created MSO files". But that's not the case. There are times, it seems, 
when LibO files are improperly rendered in MSO.

So, apparently, the 'standard' really doesn't mean anything because that's not really what 
Microsoft is doing. 

Anthony
                           
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