Guest JaseP Posted March 4, 2003 Report Share Posted March 4, 2003 I've noticed that when my wife tried converting some of her old Word Docs to OpenOffice, she locked up my Linux box... When I tried to convert one of the docs, I noticed that it would lock up for me as well. It seems that complex Word Docs, formatted with a lot of tables, there is a greater chance of lock-ups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted March 4, 2003 Report Share Posted March 4, 2003 I don't really know about lock-ups, but I do know that OpenOffice.org/StarOffice does choke on any form of complex Word document. Unfortunetaly, the two are not completely compatible. If you use Word like a desktop publishing program -- inDesign -- then OpenOffice.org simply can't keep up and will either die or mangle the document on you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted March 4, 2003 Report Share Posted March 4, 2003 What kind of lockup is it ? Does ctrl-alt-backspace work ? Can u connect to ur machine from a remote machine ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BooYah Posted March 5, 2003 Report Share Posted March 5, 2003 Word combatibility is a work in progress, and it's a problem M$ is responsible for. Straight text seems to hold up pretty well, but whenever I would transfer documents with complex graphics, things got a little screwy. I've never had one lock-up before though. My solution-use Open Office for everything. If someone else needs a copy and they don't have Open Office, I'll save it as a pdf. BooYah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted March 5, 2003 Report Share Posted March 5, 2003 Word combatibility is a work in progress, and it's a problem M$ is responsible for. It's not a problem MS has to fix, it's a problem that's a solution to them... I agree wholeheartedly with you: just do everything in OOo, and if people don't have it, either save to pdf and/or offer them to pass them a cd with OOo. I recently heard here in Switzerland, the Kanton of Geneva has done exactly that to all taxpayers: they sent them a cd with (amongs other things like the tax form) OOo for Win and Lin!! These people are using their heads. Wish all others would do the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qnr Posted March 5, 2003 Report Share Posted March 5, 2003 PDF is good, albeit proprietary. If you want a non-proprietary route, load all the files back into Word, and save them as straight Rich Text Format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ump Posted March 5, 2003 Report Share Posted March 5, 2003 I had thought I read somewhere that there was a push to have XML set as a standard for word proccessing documents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted March 5, 2003 Report Share Posted March 5, 2003 A push yes.. but that is future stuffs.. What happens to all the existing word documents already made. Anyway, the sooner the push is made and the standard is created, the better for me. I have to downgrade my OpenOffice to 1.0.1 because the doc files opened in OO.o 1.0.2 have outline formatting problems, and I just cannot redo the formatting on 20 something pages of document just for printing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted March 5, 2003 Report Share Posted March 5, 2003 I've read that openoffice could save as pdf, but I can't figure out where...I looked under "Save as", but don't see it...I've Openoffive 1.0.2... Where can I find it, ot did I overlooked it (many times?)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qnr Posted March 5, 2003 Report Share Posted March 5, 2003 I don't have OpenOffice installed at the moment. However, you can make a pdf from almost an application you have that will print to a printer. Say, for example Mozilla. Select Print, Print to file. The default will be mozilla.ps, so if you use that it will print a file named mozilla.ps once it has, open a terminal and type ps2pdf mozilla.ps yourfilename.pdf I know this doesn't really help with the OO question, but it might help in general. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BooYah Posted March 5, 2003 Report Share Posted March 5, 2003 To save as a pdf in OO I just select one of the PDF converters in the print dialgoue. BooYah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SDMF Posted March 6, 2003 Report Share Posted March 6, 2003 yep, that's how I made the PDF version of my resume. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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