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2009/1/26 Paul Hartman |
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<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com<paul.hartman%2Bgentoo@×××××.com> |
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> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Peter Ruskin |
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> <peter.ruskin@×××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Monday 26 January 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> >> Hi all, |
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> >> Other than Office 2007 is there any software out there that can |
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> >> *write* .docx? |
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> >> Work requires me to use this format sometimes (it's not |
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> >> negotiable) and I can get around it 95% of the time, but the 5% |
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> >> causes me insane amounts of grief. Even though Office2007 runs |
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> >> perfectly well in CrossOver, I have to put up with that stupid |
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> >> bouncing ribbon, menus that are not there and <shock> <horror> |
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> >> <disgust> a productivity app that insists on launching all it's |
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> >> windows undecorated (this last is the worst of the worst...). |
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> >> |
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> >> Ooo-3 can read these docs but not write them. |
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> > As far as I can see, Ooo-3 _can_ write MSOffice files. Just open |
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> > any OpenOffice document and try "Save As". |
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> Does not support writing Office 2007 OOXML format on OOo 3.0 here. |
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> Only old Office 97-2003 (binary .doc) format. |
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> I think Go-OO has an odf-converter program that can convert OOo |
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> documents to OOXML but I don't think there is a gentoo package and |
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> last time I read about it, it was very raw (you'll lose |
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> data/formatting when converting). |
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> Paul |
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I believe if you build OO from source using portage you get GO-OO, however |
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if you use OO-bin you just get the plain OO package. |
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- Nick |
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