Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny
Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen schreef:
> > 2008/10/20 Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl>:
> >> All outgoing documents are in PDF. But customers will sent all kinds of
> >> documents as input.
> >>
> > Ah, I see. Then, I suppose that it is MSO 2007, OOo 3.x, or nothing.
> They are sending all kinds of documents.
> E.g. WordPerfect, RTF, doc, openoffice, pdf. And docx.
You are facing a large array of possible document formats and as far as
I understand your requirements these are legal documents and other
mission critical things. Using any software with a non-native format can
result in glitches - some minor, some serious. Even opening documents
with a different version of the same program may not be good enough for
things like contracts where even one missed word can spell disaster.
I really see only two options here
- Get all these programmes in a bunch of different versions to minimize
the possibility of wrong data
- Enforce a small set of trusted formats (txt, pdf, ?)
In the environment I work in (academic research) minor glitches in
switching back and forth between Word and OpenOffice are no more than
mild annoyances but your situation sounds quite different.
cu
Philipp
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Dr. Philipp Pagel
Lehrstuhl f. Genomorientierte Bioinformatik
Technische Universität München
http://mips.gsf.de/staff/pagel
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