Paul van der Vlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen schreef:
> > 2008/10/20 Paul van der Vlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> All outgoing documents are in PDF. But customers will sent all kinds of
> >> documents as input.
> >>
> > Ah, I see. Then, I suppose that it is MSO 2007, OOo 3.x, or nothing.

> They are sending all kinds of documents.
> E.g. WordPerfect, RTF, doc, openoffice, pdf. And docx.

You are facing a large array of possible document formats and as far as
I understand your requirements these are legal documents and other
mission critical things. Using any software with a non-native format can
result in glitches - some minor, some serious. Even opening documents
with a different version of the same program may not be good enough for
things like contracts where even one missed word can spell disaster.

I really see only two options here

 - Get all these programmes in a bunch of different versions to minimize
   the possibility of wrong data

 - Enforce a small set of trusted formats (txt, pdf, ?)

In the environment I work in (academic research) minor glitches in
switching back and forth between Word and OpenOffice are no more than
mild annoyances but your situation sounds quite different.

cu
        Philipp

-- 
Dr. Philipp Pagel
Lehrstuhl f. Genomorientierte Bioinformatik
Technische Universität München
http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel


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