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Hi Thorsten,

thank you very much for your comment. Please see my remarks below your lines.

Am 11.08.2011 09:44, schrieb Thorsten Behrens:
[...]
I think getting "you should install LibreOffice" somehow encoded
into the filename is an ill-advised, ugly solution to the wrong
problem.

I don't like disguising marketing strategies in how my software
behaves. For the acedemic setting you work in, surely using personal
relations, some explanations in emails etc etc works much better
than the proposed solution (and also offers opportunities to grow
community, not only user base).

[...]
As I agree that there shouldn't be something like a hidden message to install any software in the filename, I didn't want to make a marketing-point but rather wanted to point to the practical use of LibreOffice in document exchange. Below, I describe the standard scenarios more in detail. I think these scenarios are not limited to academia:

Situation 1: LO user sends a .doc(x), .xls(x) etc.: It is unsure (and in most cases unlikely) that the counterpart receives 100% perfect layout or content. Situation 2: LO user sends a .odt,.ods etc: Here it depends: a) counterpart has LibreOffice and gets the document 100%, or b) counterpart cannot open the document or c) counterpart uses MS Office 2007/2010 to edit ODF-files and sends back 'destroyed' files (i.e. worst case is the broken ODF formula support in Excel). Situation 3: LO user sends .od?.pdf: All users can view the file to 100% in PDF viewer. If LibreOffice is installed, the counterpart can edit the file to 100%. (This, of course, is limited by the current implementation, through which the counterpart does not know whether the received .pdf-file is a hybrid PDF or not.

Cheers,
Gerald


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