Re: [libreoffice-users] saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

Have you tried any of the others.
Softmaker (free trial version), office web. I think a newer version of 
ApacheOO is due out later this year but it may be no better depending 
upon work on the filters.
Steve


On 2012-03-21 13:09, Jon Rubin wrote:
> bangs head against wall.
> I'm in academia, they aren't going to buy me a copy of MS to use at home. I
> don't want to buy one.
> Who benefits?
> Bangs head again.
> *I* benefit, if LO can open and save docx with no probllems so that it is
> transparent.
> I normally ignore this kind of trolling, but as you rightly guessed, I've
> wasted several hours trying to get this to work and my patience is spent.
>
> On 20 March 2012 21:21, e-letter<inpost@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
> > On 20/03/2012, darwinev0lved<darwinev0lved@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > > HI, I was having problem with a docx document that work sent me
> > (actually,
> > > this isn't the first time, but it'd be nice to sort it if poss.). When I
> > try
> > > to save it, it crashes LO, I can recover it, I can save it as an odt but
> > at
> > > some point I'm going to have to send it back, so I need to be able to
> > save
> > > it as a docx.
> > Your company should be paying you to buy a legitimate copy of m$...
> >
> > Why do you want LO to be a m$-clone? Who benefits?
> >
> > m$ formats are irrelevant to odf. The priority for LO is superior
> > behaviour of the software with native formats.
> >
> > How does the perfect m$-clone behaviour of LO desired by so many
> > unwilling to pay the m$ tax benefit the preferred proliferation of
> > odf?
> >
> > > I though it might be something off with the document itself, so I opened
> > up
> > > a blank document and tried to save that as a docx file - well this time I
> > > got "Libreoffice 3.5 has stopped working"
> > >
> > > So, not great.
> > Strategically, it is great; m$ fans are forced to make a decision: pay
> > the m$ to continue using and propagating the m$ formats.
> >
> > Have you conducted a full cost-benefit analysis of the time you are
> > wasting (yours, programmers who choose to write code gratis) compared
> > to you buying m$ and therefore releasing more time available to
> > improve odf???
> >
> > > Advice, thoughts?
> > Please create a new document in odf using LO. When you open that
> > document using m$ and notice the destruction of the quality of your
> > original document, write to m$ and ask them to explain why m$ is
> > unable to open your odf document properly and correctly. Don't forget
> > to also ask m$ how to submit a bug report for the faulty performance
> > of m$. Tell us the response.
> >
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