Re: [libreoffice-users] How to edit MS doc(x) files without breaking it for MS?

On 11/20/2012 01:17 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
> On 11/20/2012 10:21 AM, M Henri Day wrote:
> > 2012/11/19 Paolo Debortoli <paolo_debortoli@yahoo.com>
> >
> > > hi all.  i had the same problem receving via email from an office .docx
> > > files.  when I try to import the file in libreoffice it crashes and 
> > > does
> > > not allow to import in any way.  the solution I found is to open 
> > > such file
> > > with gwoffice (google office app, you need a google account 
> > > connected to
> > > use it) and save it in odt format always via gwoffice  (then it is 
> > > exactly
> > > in lo format).  I think that opening such files shouldn't  be very
> > > difficult  (I am not a programmer at all).
> > >
> > > paolo
> > I must say I find this odd, as I've not experienced similar problems in
> > Writer. To test, I booted from my usual Ubuntu 12.04 into Windows 7 and
> > created two .docx documents in MS Office Word 2010 (Swedish version), 
> > one
> > the first strophe of a Swedish poem, the other a line from Thomas
> > Paine's *Common
> > Sense*. I had no problem opening either one in LibreOffice (Swedish 
> > Version
> > 3.6.3.2 (Build ID: 58f22d5)) ; to test further I sent the latter as an
> > attachment to a Gmail message to a friend in India who has an
> > English-language version of LibreOffice (3.5.4.2 Build ID: 
> > 350m1(Build:2)).
> > He also had no trouble in opening and reading the attachment. Both these
> > two documents were, of course, extremely simple, no embedded 
> > hyperlinks or
> > tables, etc, but for documents of this nature I am unable to 
> > reproduce any
> > difficulties in opening .docx files in recent versions of 
> > LibreOffice. From
> > what I understand, however, things can become more complicated when 
> > links
> > or tables are embedded in documents or when other LibreOffice functions,
> > like Calc or Impress are used....
> >
> > Henri
> I has a lady send me a .docx file of a "poster" that was very 
> complex.  It would have been easier for it to have been created with 
> Publisher, CorelDraw, Inkscsape, or other non-wordprocessor, but she 
> used Word and .docx.  It did not load up properly with 3.5.4 or was it 
> 3.5.5.  I told her that the poster should have been sent as a PDF and 
> then she agreed, and resent it out to everyone as a PDF file. That is 
> when I saw how complex it was. I would not have tried anything like 
> that in any wordprocessorlet alone saved it in .docx.
>
> Now that MSO 2013's .docx format will not be completely compatible 
> with the 2010 or 2007 versions of that format, FOSS users will have as 
> much problems as users of earlier version of MSO.  Also, I have read 
> that if you want to get all of the package to work correctly, you have 
> to use MSO2013 with Win8.  It was designed to work with Win8 and seems 
> not to work completelywith Win7.  I also read somewhere that you 
> should not even try to use it on Vista or XP, since the testers had 
> big problems trying to install the 2013 beta on those earilier OSs.
>
> I really think MSO changes the specifications for the OOXML formats so 
> you are "required" to upgrade to the newest version of MSO to get the 
> format to work properly.  Forced upgrading as a way to getmore money 
> from their users is as bad as their new "forced" "software rental" 
> policies/penalties on the users.  Oh well, I do digress.
>
> So, the best solution is to try to get users to use the non-"OOXML" 
> formats so any version of MSO 2000-2013 can use the files properly. 
> Then there will be no problems with and FOSS office package users as 
> well.
I agree totally. Any Word Perfect document ever created can be read by 
the latest Word Perfect Version. The European Commission for 
Interoperable Systems published a report in 2009 about Microsoft. A link 
to the report can be found here:
http://www.ecis.eu/2009/03/microsofts-history-of-anticompetitive-behaviour-and-consumer-harm/
For the full report, click on the "click here" text at the end of the 
paragraph.

Don

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