Re: OT Apache Open Office
On Sunday 11 March 2012 3:27:51 pm Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 01:09:10PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
> > I have been using dev builds, now rc's, of AOO for a while now. For my
> > work, archived documents & templates this is working out better, for my
> > use scenario, than LO ver 3.4.x and later.
>
> That's interesting. Do you mean there are things you can open with AOO that
> won't open with LO? That surprises me, because I was under the impression
> that LO had moved on *a lot* from OO, and AOO had not. So either I'm
> wrong, or LO has regressed in some cases.
'Moved on a lot' does not have meaning to me. New features bring new bugs and
sometimes regressions. That said, I agree that the LO devs and document
foundation have done a lot of good work, I try not to disparage, it just does not
work in my case.
1. About 'file open' : Someone mentioned LO has a stricter compliance with ?
document format standards, anecdotal experience shows some MS docs do not open in
LO that do open in AOO. Not really an area of concern here, I rarely get a MS
document sent to me.
I am more concerned with document fidelity with archives & templates from
previous versions. This concept also includes all future documents.
2. New feature in LO 3.4.x and later, partial fix in Lo 3.5.1 RC-1, the
Table>table properties>borders feature was 'improved'. This broke backwards
compatibility with all Tables that used the 'double line' style. I use tables
exclusively and the double line border style is on every page of my docs. I have
enclosed a couple of bugs for the curious.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38542
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42750
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47194
This is significant to me, it is how I present project results to my clients, so I
have been testing AOO for a alternate plan if needed.
>
> > There are differences between AOO & LO, significant enough to warrant
> > having a choice in Debian of which one to use.
>
> Someone will have to step up and put the work in to package AOO, for the
> choice to exist "in Debian".
The Apache OO folks do provide .deb files with desktop integration. In my tests
these work well enough on a Debian stable system, though it would be nice to get
the benefits that the Debian LO devs have provided in that packages.
--
Peace,
Greg
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