Re: [gentoo-user] Crossover Office and Word 2007

[Daniel Pielmeier]

Alan McKinnon schrieb am 27.01.2009 00:12:
> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 00:46:22 Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
>> Alan McKinnon schrieb am 26.01.2009 21:11:
>
>>> Ooo-3 can read these docs but not write them.
>> OxygenOffice [1] supports importing and exporting Word 2007 (.docx)
>> files as well as importing Excel 2007 (.xlsx) and PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx).
>>
>> From what I read it was planned for ooo3 to able to write .*x but it
>> seems it did not get in the 3.0 release.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.oooninja.com/2008/02/word-2007-docx-converter-oxygenoffice.html
>>
>> Some other links probably worth reading:
>>
>> http://www.oooninja.com/2008/12/better-office-docx-converter.html
>> http://katana.oooninja.com/w/odf-converter-integrator
>> http://www.oooninja.com/2008/01/openxml-translator-odf-converter-11.html
>> http://download.go-oo.org/tstnvl/odf-converter/
>
> Thanks for the links Daniel. A quick scan through them seems to show that the
> various converters have varying success but none are really completely there
> yet. It looks like I'll just have to suffer with the Office 2007 abomination
> a little longer, until Ooo-3.x does decent exports.
>
> This is not really one of those things I'm willing to fiddle with and spend
> time on. It's *much* more fun getting KDE running on my gf's XP notebook for
> example :-)
>

Yeah I think we just have to wait some time until the converters are
mature. As both formats are open it should be more easier to write
converters compared to the old ones that had to interpret the binary and
closed MS format.

Regards,

Daniel