Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn...
by Karunamon on Sunday March 19, 2017 @02:36PM
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Do you realize that just being able to save a file in a format does not necessarily mean being able to properly render files in that format that were created by other programs?
ODF is basically XKCD 927. It solves no problems in the real world. It has no new features. The effort spent by OpenOffice in implementing it could have been better spent on making the Word filters not suck - to this day I still have Word2003 format documents with tables that OO won't render properly.
Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn...
by vetinari on Sunday March 19, 2017 @09:17PM
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If I had a dollar for every document made in Word version X that didn't display correctly in Word version Y... As an Office for Mac user, I could tell you long stories of inconsistencies (e.g. they finally fixed dropdown controls embedded in documents in the july 2016 update).
In LibreOffice defense, it is kind of difficult to implement specification, that says things "works like Word95".
In the end, these inconsistencies are not a big deal. Neither between different Office versions, nor between LO a MSO. If you want pixel-perfect layouts, use tools intended to do that (i.e. InDesign or other DTP).
And ISO and Microsoft. Microsoft cared enough about ODF, that they implemented importers and exporters for the MSO.
> "Hey, (I can't open this|This looks completely broken), can you resend as doc/docx please?"
Do you realize that you can open and export ODF formats in the MSO?
> As for reading documents, who cares if it renders differently? > People in enterprise, which accounts for most usage of Office.
They are already used to this - each version or language version of the MSO displays the documents slightly differently. Some layout calculations even depend on the printer driver installed!