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[discuss] help with writer

Posted: 05 Mar 2008 06:59 PM PST

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Thanks for the clarification. Change the file extension to a zip = *.odt
to *.zip. Now if I can get it to change, so far stuffit has not recognized
the extension change. I have tried a known good file and experencing the same
issues, maybe I am doing something incorrect. Will keep working at it. Did
not know I could extract the *.odt file by changing it to a zip extension.

Thanks
Rene


In a message dated 3/6/2008 3:47:48 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
com writes:

2008/3/6, com <com>: 


An .odt file IS a .zip file. If it does not work with unzip, first replace
the .odf file extension with .zip, THEN unzip. An .odt file is an archive of
xml files.
You shall NOT zip and then unzip the .odt file. Zipping it and then
unzipping it is the same thing as doing nothing at all. Just unzip the
original .odt file. If that doesn't work, then just CHANGE the EXTENSION
part of the FILENAME, highlight the file, press F2, move the cursor to the
position between the dot and the "o" in "odt", press delete three times,
then enter "zip" and press Enter. Now unzip the file.

J.R.

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[discuss] .doc compatibility

Posted: 22 Feb 2008 09:51 AM PST

Andreas wrote: 
mmh, as far as i know it provides not realy any new info. But of course
i am no file format expert.
 
more interesting is the question what you mean with "not so god .doc
compatibility". Did you mean real conversion errors, missing data, bad
formats or missing VBA features. For the latter one VBA i would say that
we will never reach a really good compatibility.
We are no simple clone althoug it looks so. We provide a good platform
independent office suite with an open standardized document format that
becomes adopted by more and more goverments and public offices all over
the world.

If especially companies are willing to pay a lot of money for licences
and will stay with an closed format or a "pseudo" open format it is hard
to argue against that or to convince them. I think the migration to ODF
is possible if really wanted and already demonstrated.

Don't be frustrated! There is often a lot of politics involved behind
the scenes ;-)

But the good thing is that we always work on better compatibility.

Juergen

 


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[discuss] Windows/"patched Windows"/Linux performance

Posted: 16 Feb 2008 10:24 PM PST

On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 22:04 +1300, Michael Adams wrote:
 

While this is true, I might play devil's advocate here and point out
that when I was running a trial version of CrossOver Office, with Office
XP installed in it, Word / Excel took about 2 or 3 seconds to start up.
I was always astonished.

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[discuss] Suggestion

Posted: 14 Jan 2008 10:26 AM PST

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Brady Butler wrote:
 

Grammar checking has been available for almost five years. The current
versions install and act as extensions. Prior versions required
installation as macros.

In all instances, the user must decide:
* Which of the grammar checkers to install;
* Which language for the grammar checkers to install;

Both plurals are deliberate. The last time I counted, there were six
grammar checkers for OOo, that covered 20+ languages.

xan

jonathon

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