[plug] [OT] Office XP 30 day evil

[Bill Kenworthy]

Ive run into some severe font problems using 1.0.2, and have had to
revert back to 1.0.1.  windows fonts that I have been moving from one
upgrade to the next for some time just dissapear, are invisible or just
plain wrong.  Went back to 1.0.1 and my doco's (particularly powerpoint
imports are far better).

BillK

On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 14:15, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > Some people are stubborn, they want their MS Office.  The same people 
> > that then whinge and bitch about how the software doesn't do this or 
> > crashes or stuffs up their layout etc.
> >
> > Seriously, sometimes you just can't win. 
> 
> I know :-(
> 
> I'm having some significant problems with OO.o here. We're using it on 
> our new linux thin client network (literally anything is better then MS 
> Works 2.0 on a Win95 486 w 16mb RAM), and overall its working very well. 
> Even over remote X11 to a P100 thin client.
> 
>  The number 1 issue is word-doc import formatting though - the drooling 
> idiots that are some of our less mentally talented advertisers /will/ 
> design their ads in MS Word, no matter what we say. Accepted formats 
> list be damnned! *sigh*. The staff used to just say its a ".doc file" 
> and "we can't open them" but now they can with OO.o.... alas with borked 
> formatting, misaligned pix and boxes, etc. In a way its worse than 
> before because they expect that having a capability means having it work 
> /perfectly/. So I can empathise with what you're saying there - you 
> really just can't win.
> 
> OTOH, its amusing how fast our sales staff have taken to using OO.o for 
> anything and everything. I'll be delighted if the ODBC interface to 
> PostgreSQL improves enough (mainly auto-increment problems) to be 
> seriously useable with OO.o forms - can you say customer database and 
> selective form letter? (we've been stuck in the dark ages for a long time).
> 
> I've been using OO.o on my debian box at home for ages, but I'm already 
> being shown stuff by the sales folk as if its blindingly obvious. All 
> hail user-accessable online help!
> 
> On a wee [somewhat ot] tangent, does anybody here know if there's a way 
> to export a pic from an oo.o (or imported powerpoint) presentation in 
> its original form? I can dump entire slides, but the quality is very 
> inferior when all we want is the pic. Its possible (if clunky) with 
> Writer using save-as-webpage but Impress doesn't seem to do anything 
> similar (that leaves original images). Ideally it'd be some kind of 
> "right-click->export-image" function.
> 
> BTW, does StarOffice have better Word import filters? if so, it might be 
> time to have a play.
> 
-- 
Bill Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>