Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 29, 2006 04:04 PM
I just tested this out with: StarOffice 8 OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 KWord 1.5.0 (Kde 3.5.3 [KOffice])
All three of the above named applications produce ODF-compliant<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.odt documents which can be opened, edited and saved by any of the other 2 above named applications.
There is no interoperability issue to be had between any of these programs.
StarOffice and OpenOffice.org do have the full microsoft document compatability that KWord lacks; however, there is no reason that the three applications will not be document compatability equivalents upon the next iteration of the Koffice suite.
As to the issue of fonts: It's a trivial matter to search the filesystem for all instances of<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.ttf files. Once found, you've got the game won. Simply merge the fonts, from both windoze and Linux platforms, onto a CD or over the network. Problem solved. Use what you want, when you want.
This is one of my first installation tasks, along with codecs and a uniform set of applications for each build.
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Re:ODF interoperability
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 29, 2006 04:04 PMStarOffice 8
OpenOffice.org 2.0.2
KWord 1.5.0 (Kde 3.5.3 [KOffice])
All three of the above named applications produce ODF-compliant<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.odt documents which can be opened, edited and saved by any of the other 2 above named applications.
There is no interoperability issue to be had between any of these programs.
StarOffice and OpenOffice.org do have the full microsoft document compatability that KWord lacks; however, there is no reason that the three applications will not be document compatability equivalents upon the next iteration of the Koffice suite.
As to the issue of fonts:
It's a trivial matter to search the filesystem for all instances of<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.ttf files. Once found, you've got the game won. Simply merge the fonts, from both windoze and Linux platforms, onto a CD or over the network. Problem solved. Use what you want, when you want.
This is one of my first installation tasks, along with codecs and a uniform set of applications for each build.
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