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Re:Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated?... by davidgerard on Sunday September 11, 2016 @11:51AM (#12473917)
I nearly had to support one of these - we were using embedded OpenOffice 3.2 on Solaris then Ubuntu to translate DOC into PDF. Someone suggested we use embedded Office; we said "certainly! you will need to pay for a Windows admin." We had two customers for this failed project, so they didn't go for it ...

the tale: https://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/599841.html

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