On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 07:22:17PM +0000, Ryan wrote:
> I've been somewhat disappointed with the quality of the conversion of
> Office documents into native *nix documents by most of the decent GUI apps
> (Kword, Staroffice, Openoffice, etc.).
What can we say? When you're right, you're right. There are no good
open source translators out there - not even for MS Word. Every one
I've tested failed on trivial documents, and I gave up. Not even
StarOffice on Windows was anywhere close to usable a couple of months
ago and I bought Office XP for my home systems.
> Of course, I don't intend to launch the "why import when you can use open
> source?" question, because most people don't have a choice: M$ documents
> are (sadly) not yet extinct. But maybe a good import filter could help
> keep their population under control until the old monopoly fades away.
We don't even need to start the war on my not ask your users to save all
their documents in portable formats. Most don't know how - as far as
they're concerned, the native Microsoft formats are all there are.
.../Ed
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