[TriLUG] linux apps on desktop that support *.mdb, *.vsd, *.dwg and *.mpp

[Jon Carnes]

The problem you point out is very true, but I disagree with your
conclusion.  This problem is not linked purely to OO. It happens to
folks using older versions of Office and to folks still using
WordPerfect (and there are a lot of them out there).

Your answer is the one that Microsoft pushes - everyone *must* run
Office... and not just Office, but the latest version!

No. If you get a file that is too heavily formatted - don't waste your
time with it. Send it back to the creator and tell them to put it in a
standard format that can be shared (rtf is a good example).

Yes, you'll hear them whine about the loss of several hours spent making
their text look so pretty... but they'll learn.

Jon

On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 10:42, Chris Bullock wrote:
> We have *tried* to save money at our office by deploying OpenOffice.  
> You will always have outside people that will send you .doc and .xls 
> with heavy formatting and OpenOffice does not handle this well.  I have 
> contacted OpenOffice with several issues and after about 4 months they 
> reply with a "no fix."  So if you take the time our IT staff tries to 
> sort out MS Office to OpenOffice conversions there is NO money saved.
> 
> For the visio you can try Kivio that comes with KDE.
> 
> So honestly I would keep the win emulator handy.
> 
> Don't get me wrong I think that OpenOffice and kivio are great but for a 
> standard I do not foresee it entering the corporate industry as long as 
> other people are still using MS Office.
> my $.02
> --cgb
> 
> Jim Ray wrote:
> 
> >Well, taking a *.doc file, opening it w/ openoffice and using *.sxw from there was no prob.  However, I'm inevitably going to run into folks that have gone astray and that have created a database, visio drawing, autocad drawing and/or project file.
> >
> >What's the best way to handle the situation?  If there are linux apps that do the trick, I'd surely like to know about 'em before running some kinda win emulator.  Even if there were a file filter/translator thingie and i had to learn a new app, I'd opt for new app over upteen layers of code executing together nicely.
> >
> >HTH&L,
> >
> >Jim
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