On Sunday 11 March 2012 3:27:51 pm Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 01:09:10PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my > > work, archived documents & templates this is working out better, for my > > use scenario, than LO ver 3.4.x and later. > > That's interesting. Do you mean there are things you can open with AOO that > won't open with LO? That surprises me, because I was under the impression > that LO had moved on *a lot* from OO, and AOO had not. So either I'm > wrong, or LO has regressed in some cases.
'Moved on a lot' does not have meaning to me. New features bring new bugs and sometimes regressions. That said, I agree that the LO devs and document foundation have done a lot of good work, I try not to disparage, it just does not work in my case. 1. About 'file open' : Someone mentioned LO has a stricter compliance with ? document format standards, anecdotal experience shows some MS docs do not open in LO that do open in AOO. Not really an area of concern here, I rarely get a MS document sent to me. I am more concerned with document fidelity with archives & templates from previous versions. This concept also includes all future documents. 2. New feature in LO 3.4.x and later, partial fix in Lo 3.5.1 RC-1, the Table>table properties>borders feature was 'improved'. This broke backwards compatibility with all Tables that used the 'double line' style. I use tables exclusively and the double line border style is on every page of my docs. I have enclosed a couple of bugs for the curious. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38542 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42750 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47194 This is significant to me, it is how I present project results to my clients, so I have been testing AOO for a alternate plan if needed. > > > There are differences between AOO & LO, significant enough to warrant > > having a choice in Debian of which one to use. > > Someone will have to step up and put the work in to package AOO, for the > choice to exist "in Debian". The Apache OO folks do provide .deb files with desktop integration. In my tests these work well enough on a Debian stable system, though it would be nice to get the benefits that the Debian LO devs have provided in that packages. -- Peace, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201203111836.52270.gomadtr...@gci.net
