Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Defending ODF against OOXML in the UK

On 24/02/2014, Pedro <pedlino@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jim
>
>
> Jim Seymour wrote
> > This is all rather unbecoming, don't you guys think?
>
> Not really. This is just the two extremist sides of the ODF vs MS-formats.
> There are indeed some users (not Tanstaafl) who just want a free office
> suite that perfectly supports MS-formats (and don't care about free file
> formats as long as they can get the software for free as in beer). And
> there
> are the ODF fundamentalists (like e-letter) that say that LO should only
> support MS-formats for Import and even so that developers shouldn't waste
> too much time on that :)

Good summary, worth more than 2 ¢! :)

> The problem here, as I see it, is that ODF is still in it's infancy. E.g.
> only recently ODF (under LibreOffice 4.1) started supporting font embedding
> which is an essential feature for anyone working with vector graphics,
> custom presentations or simply elegant text documents. MS supports font
> embedding since Word 6.0 (back in 1993!!!)
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188324

Isn't this issue affected by the fact that different operating systems
have different default fonts? If so, it would explain the relative
ease that the mono-platform m$ can solve this "problem".

> LO and ODF are evolving quite fast but there is still a long way to go.

and ignoring m$ fans (some paid by m$ perhaps?) would help by reducing
that evolution time...

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