[ale] SO vs OO

[Dow Hurst]

We have scientific poster for the Biophysical Society meeting every year.  The 
posters have scientific symbols, imported chemical drawings, tables, and so 
on.  Even if one font or symbol isn't converted correctly it can screw up the 
layout or look.  No one would want to troubleshoot under a deadline a file 
conversion problem.  Most of this work is done just before we leave for the 
meeting so there isn't time for any problems.  I am sure that this stuff will 
go away over time as OOo and SO release newer revisions of the package.  I 
actually haven't tried SO in a long time so don't know how it would do on one 
of my posters.  I've been meaning to send one of the posters to the OOo 
developers.  I am sure they need test files,
Dow


Pete Hardie wrote:
> Marvin Dickens wrote:
> 
>> On Monday 05 April 2004 09:59, Dow Hurst wrote:
>>
>>
>>>  I have found for complex documents/posters or documents with
>>> special fonts and formatting that OOo will not open or save as
>>> MSWord/Powerpoint correctly. Most of the time I can open up the 
>>> document or
>>> poster to get the info I need, but if I have to modify and resend back,
>>> then I just revert to MSoffice under CXoffice. 
>>
>>
>>
>> All of the MS Word/Powerpoint power users that I know that use 
>> Word/Powerpoint for business purposes won't switch to SO or OO for the 
>> reasons you described above: Complex files generated in MS Word and 
>> Powerpoint are  mangled when
>> displayed in OO and SO.
>>
>> All of these same people tell me if OO or SO fixed this they would 
>> leave the MS platform like rats jumping from a sinking ship.
> 
> 
> I have to ask - what are they doing that is so complex in 
> *PowerPoint*???  All the complexity I've ever seen is eye candy - OO 
> does backgrounds, object positioning, and scripting as well as PP.
> 
> 
> 

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