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Subject: Re: [egov] OASIS E-GOV TC : USE OF OPEN OFFICE
At 12:22 07/03/2003 -0500, David RR Webber - XML ebusiness wrote: >Sean, > >Can OpenOffice open Word .DOC files? If so - may make sense to >use .doc for working documents internally - and then convert them >to PDF and .XML for final release / review drafts. The trouble comes with the proprietary nature of Word .doc files. No converter - no matter how clever - will ever get all the autonumbering, cascading styles, merged table cells etc. etc. right. At the end of the day, the only arbiter for what a .DOC file should look like is the exact version of Microsoft Word that created it :-/ This is true of a lot of WYSIWYG systems. OpenOffice has very good converters to/from MS Office formats but all such converters have their limits. I could see what you suggest working fine as long as the use of Word is kept stylistically simple so that documents can round-trip Word<->OpenOffice without loss. regards, Sean http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription manager: <http://lists.oasis-open.org/ob/adm.pl>
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