OO.o apparently doesn't focus much on interoperability with other ODF suits/applications: interoperability with M$Office pays back better.
On other side, KOffice is yet too young to for any interoperability to be considered: feature completeness comes first.
I'd vote with both hands for KOffice - but it doesn't support Windows yet. It took some time to have customers install OpenOffice. And even if they have now OO.o installed, I still cannot send them documents made in KOffice: OO.o supports only OO.o. The situation looks really bad, especially when you tell people that OO.o would facilitate document exchange with other OSs.
And also fonts problem should deserve special attention: different platforms have different font sets. And that's affect of course the resulting document and how it looks. I yet to find any solution on how can I edit freely document simultaneously under Linux & Windows. Probably basic set of fonts has to be standardized and all OSs would need to provide the fonts or their substitutes. Something like that.
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OO.o apparently doesn't focus much on interoperability with other ODF suits/applications: interoperability with M$Office pays back better.
On other side, KOffice is yet too young to for any interoperability to be considered: feature completeness comes first.
I'd vote with both hands for KOffice - but it doesn't support Windows yet. It took some time to have customers install OpenOffice. And even if they have now OO.o installed, I still cannot send them documents made in KOffice: OO.o supports only OO.o. The situation looks really bad, especially when you tell people that OO.o would facilitate document exchange with other OSs.
And also fonts problem should deserve special attention: different platforms have different font sets. And that's affect of course the resulting document and how it looks. I yet to find any solution on how can I edit freely document simultaneously under Linux & Windows. Probably basic set of fonts has to be standardized and all OSs would need to provide the fonts or their substitutes. Something like that.
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