> On May 27, 2020, at 7:18 AM, Keith N. McKenna <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Pedro;
> Comments in-line
>
> On 5/26/2020 5:18 PM, Pedro Lino wrote:
>>
>>> Plus your your phrasing
>>> leaves it wide open for people to complain about PDF files same as they
>>> already do.
>>
>> PDF is not an editable format and it is not from any of the "major
>> competitor" suites. In any case you can open PDF files in OpenOffice. Just
>> install the PDF Import extension.
>>
>
> Yes PDF is an editable format, you just need to have a PDF editor. The
> fact is that user@ is full of people complaining that AOO will not open
> there PDF files.
Yes, PDF can be edited.
>
>>> As we no longer open Word Perfect files then Your
>>> phraseology is no longer correct either.
>>
>> I'm almost sure WordPerfect is no longer a "major competitor"...
>> Unfortunately I can't find any usage statistics for any office suite to
>> check who are in fact the "major" and if they use any proprietary file types
>> other than Microsoft's...
>>
> Whether they are a "major competitor" or not is irrelevant, there 2020
> office suite is a competitor and we do not open any of there file
> formats for word processing, spreadsheet, or presentation.
These “Why OpenOffice” sections were written in Sun and Oracle times and simply
ported. Competitors is not the correct term for other myriad document formats.
We don’t have a large company funding our efforts to “compete”.
A more major effort to rewrite this part of the website makes sense to me. I
don’t how much time I have for that effort, but …
Regards,
Dave
>
> Regards
> Keith
>
>> Regards,
>> Pedro
>>
>
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