10 Nov
2005
10 Nov
'05
7:22 p.m.
Chuck E. Cheese, CEC entertainment Inc. only uses OOo. Just FYI
On 11/10/05, Les Cooper <leigh-cottage(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
Michael B. Trausch wrote:
--
David Johnson
http://www.davefilms.us
Mike Swanson wrote:
[snip]
I understand. Perhaps I didn't say what I was meaning to: If OO.o is
used to generate the document, OO.o will parse it the same way. I was
saying that if the proprietary formats are "needed," then OO.o can save
them -- interoperability works nearly perfectly, IME, going from OO.o to
Office, however, coming back from the other direction seems to break
with documents with more advanced formatting. While I'm sure they're
working on it, I try to avoid them, anyway. I hate proprietary stuff,
and avoid whenever possible. (And no: I'm not quite as bad as some
people on the subject, such as RMS.)
I only use OO.o but my default save format is as ms office formats. Such a
small percentage of (ordinary) people use OO.o, that to produce files in
its own format is pissing into the wind. However, I can tell people how the
files were produced and recommend OO.o to them. The important thing at the
moment is not the use of open document formats, it is persuading people to
use OO.o so that the user base is broad enough for them to used!
Cheers
Les
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You do not
need to feel strongarmed into using Impress' file format.
You can save it in Impress' file format as well as exporting it to
Microsoft's PowerPoint format. Just an idea.
Just because Impress supports PowerPoint documents, doesn't meant it's
complete or perfect. Just like the DOC (Word) and XLS (Excel) formats,
it's secret and must be reverse engineered. And similar to DOC and
XLS, the non-Microsoft parsing of them changes between free software
programs. Sometimes better in some documents, sometimes worse in
other. Hell, sometimes it's impossible to see what the document was
even intended to look like (eg, the MS Word-created flyer I was trying
to see)