<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 14:53 -0400, Rich DeMARS wrote:<br>
> Having worked for the government myself in the past, I can see and<br>
> conclude that same point stated below as being one of the issues here.<br>
> Which also leads me to consider just how committed the County was<br>
> truly to success of the switch. I just wonder why there was not more<br>
> training involved and why open source groups (like the ALE) where not<br>
> engaged for assistance.<br>
> But the other issue that really shines out to me here is the power of<br>
> document formats and many of their closed nature. As much as open<br>
> source is important, so is open formats. And I see the lack of open<br>
> and inter-changeable formats in environments today being a great<br>
> reason as to the failure of such endeavorers.<br>
<br>
</div>I get DOC and XLS documents from people who use Word and Excel all the<br>
time.<br>
<br>
I have yet to receive a document that required more than a minute or two<br>
of touch-up before being æsthetic, and all of them were functional.<br></blockquote><div><br>worst issue is fonts - second is default page margins. Install the liberation fonts on Linux and it's a non-issue there. page margins require futzing. Apparently the page margins are variable all over the .doc. the .docx keeps it's layout better on translation between odt and docx.<br>
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--- Mike<br>
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