[Liverpool] How LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word

[Sebastian Arcus]

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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