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Re: Looking forward to it...
by Samba on Tuesday 09/Jan/2007, @00:33
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| KOffice allready is looking very nice, but I have to agree with ODF compatibility problems. I recently switched to Koffice from OO.org, but switched back, after exchanging documents turned out to be a nightmare. This is not necessarily have to be a Koffice-problem, could also be a problem of OO.org. But how can the user figure out where the problem lies and has to be reported to? Since OO.org is more used, I now use OO.org again. |
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Re: Looking forward to it...
by ac on Tuesday 09/Jan/2007, @02:12
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The user could check the same document in different viewers, but in the end he can't be sure which one is right. The devs have to look into the ODF spec. In some cases the incompatibility might also be caused through inaccuracy of the spec.
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Re: ODF compatibility
by Andreas Speck on Tuesday 09/Jan/2007, @02:29
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I tried to reproduce our masthead, which we have in openoffice and M$Word, in KWord and in Abiword recently. It was a nightmare. The OpenOffice version is attached to this posting.
In Kword, I was able to create something which at least looked similar. In Abiword I wasn't even able to create something similar. Once I got close, but then closing and reopening the file (native Abiword format) messed everything up again.
Opening the odt file in another ODF compliant application is a different matter though. Try to open the attached masthead with KWord, and it will be all messed up. In Abiword it's the same.
My recreation of the masthead in KWord will also not open correctly in OpenOffice, not to mention Abiword...
ODF standard - that sometimes sounds more like wishful thinking.
wri-masthead.odt
25KB (25942 bytes)
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Re: ODF compatibility
by Thomas Zander on Tuesday 09/Jan/2007, @03:18
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Your masthead doesn't look very complex, but you did choose to use some items that are not well supported in OOo (frames).
The alternative is to use an anchered image, which may take some tweaking, but will give you better results. The KWord support is not 100%, but it should be enough
Anchored content in 2.0 are in design right now, but they really look like they will be awesome!
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Re: Looking forward to it...
by Thomas Zander on Tuesday 09/Jan/2007, @02:32
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Even better; there is a testsuite.
http://testsuite.opendocumentfellowship.org
The tests are written based on the spec, not on the implementation of one application. There you can see how well or bad each app behaves in each section. (people willing to make screenshots of the tests in different versions of the applications, please report to; http://www.opendocumentfellowship.org/~testsuite/ )
Do note that ODF is pretty new; its expected to see compatibility grow over time as applications find bugs and fix them.
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Re: Looking forward to it...
by hannes hauswedell on Friday 12/Jan/2007, @18:04
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i can agree 100% to the persons complaint, i use koffice on my freebsd machines and openoffice in my girlfriends laptop and interoperability is hell.
i even get better results exchanging files in .doc
a plain text with two pictures created in openoffice and opened in koffice is a mess! the pictures are in wrong places, the fonts are bigger in kofffice, certain pngs dont load at all...
i am not saying its koffice's fault, but you really need to work with ooo on interoperability!!!
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