[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Good Article for LibreOffice

On 11/28/2012 06:55 AM, VA wrote:
> This is utterly maddening.
>
> Based on Pedro's post, I ran a simple test. I created a document in Word 
> (.docx) and an identical document in LibO (.odt). I saved them both and then 
> extracted their contents using 7-zip Manager. I was amazed at how similar 
> the two document contents were, and yet how different. Neither document had 
> any of the binary smilie faces I've come to expect by opening a .doc 
> document in a text editor. All of the individual files contained formatting 
> codes in simple text. And, yet...
>
> The maddening part is how two programs can create the same type of documents 
> (xml files saved in a zipped format) and yet remain so completely different.
>
> I found similar results when I tried saving .rtf files with different word 
> processors. They all claimed to be .rtf, and in fact, were .rtf, yet they 
> were all different.
...

Indeed:
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49502>
[RTF: opening RTF file failed]

<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=LibreOffice&content=RTF>


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