Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and "complex documents"

On 07/24/2015 08:25 AM, Stephen Harding wrote:
>  I've had no problem using Writer to create 200+ page documents with over a  hundred 
> illustrations, annotated screen shots and drawings,  imported from Microsoft's Visio or LO Draw 
> (LO Draw works best) and JPEG photos.  Also frequently use tables to show information.  The 
> documents have many, many cross references embedded in them and four level table of contents at 
> the beginning.
Impressive!  :)

Peace...

"The other" Tom
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Lewis [mailto:elderdanlewis@gmail.com] 
> Sent: 24 July 2015 16:06
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about LO Writer and "complex documents"
>
> On 07/24/2015 09:31 AM, Tom Williams wrote:
> > Greetings!  With all of the recent discussion about Linux being a 
> > viable alternative to Windows, in today's computing world, I've read 
> > many comments about whether or not LibreOffice is a good alternative to MS
> > Office.  Some say yes, others say no.   One common comment made by those
> > who say no is Writer isn't good for "complex documents".  For "basic"
> > word processing, it's fine.
> >
> > Question:  in what ways does LO Writer "fail" at editing or creating 
> > "complex documents"?
> >
> > Does anyone here have any experience with LO Writer and "complex 
> > documents"?  If so, what has your experience been (either good or bad)?
> >
> > I know I haven't actually defined "complex documents" but I haven't 
> > seen any definition of that in any of the comments I've read either.  
> > So, I'll leave the definition up to whatever you would consider a 
> > "complex document".  :)
> >
> > I've submitted on LO Writer bug where Writer didn't handle Word 
> > documents with pages with different page orientations well.  I was 
> > helping a friend with a term paper and most of the paper was in 
> > portrait orientation, but a few pages were in landscape.  LO Writer 
> > treated the entire document as either portrait or landscape but 
> > couldn't handle the mixture of both. I think that's been fixed, since I reported the bug.
> > That's been about my only experience with a "complex document".
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Peace...
> >
> > "The other" Tom
>       Is the problem with Complex documents really about the complexity, or is it about using LO 
> and?Word on a complex document?
>       I have been working with ODF Authors to create documentation for OpenOffice.org and then 
> LibreOffice. I consider these document to be complex.
>
> Dan
>
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