[Liverpool] How LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word

[Hartley, Daniel]

Thanks guys. Really appreciate the late night effort. Seems a few drinks are in order for you when I get to a meeting, and a more rigorous back up system. 

Regards, 

Daniel

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On 20 Apr 2012, at 06:29, "Sebastian Arcus" <shop at open-t.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks for that - that is useful to know
> 
> 
> On 19/04/12 21:39, Stephen Watkin wrote:
>> Depending on the exact flavour of corruption (and if it's a native open
>> document file), you might be able to open the file in your favourite zip
>> file manager and extract the contents that way. ODF files are just a
>> bunch of zipped-up XML files after all. I just tried it on Ubuntu 11.10
>> - rename the file and stick '.zip' on the end, open it in 'Archive
>> Manager' and see if you can open the 'contents.xml' file in a text editor.
>> 
>> Ste
>> 
>> On 19/04/12 21:32, Daniel Hartley wrote:
>>> It's interesting you just send this out. I would generally completely
>>> agree; however half an hour ago a document I've been working on for
>>> months became corrupted using LibreOffice and I'm now spending the
>>> night trying to salvage it from elsewhere......
>>> 
>>> Alas, the tribulations of an unknowledgeable Linux user unable to
>>> configure a properly working system...
>>> 
>>> Regards.
>>> 
>>> On 19/04/12 21:29, Bob Ham wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> I saw this and thought it might be of interest:
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.datamation.com/applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-1.html
>>>> 
>>>> It's a little shallow and completely ignores issues of freedom but it's
>>>> an interesting read.  The fact that it comes from a long-established
>>>> technology publication is, I think a sign of how appropriate it has
>>>> become to use free software alternatives to common proprietary desktop
>>>> software.
>>>> 
>>>> A wonderful quote:
>>>> 
>>>>   "Really, the superficial conventional wisdom has the wrong view
>>>>   entirely. It's not LibreOffice Writer that needs to catch up to MS
>>>>   Word. From an expert's perspective, it's frequently MS Word that needs
>>>>   to catch up [to] LibreOffice Writer."
>>>> 
>>>> 
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