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SAngeli l33t
Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 904 Location: Italy
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:57 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Micro$oft Word and OpenOffice |
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Hi,
I run OpenOffice 1.1.4 and strougle a lot when I receive Micor$oft Word documents that opened in OOo are not properly formatted. This becomes an issue when the Word document owner intentionally formatted the page.
How to be able at least to print a MS Word document as is?
Looking around I noticed in portage of this application: wvWare
Is this ok and used by OpenOffice?
I was also thinking to install (through wine) Micro$oft Word Viewer 2003
Will it work (have not tried it jet). Is it a good idea?
Thank you for your advice.
Spiro
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Lance Tux's lil' helper
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augury l33t
Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 722 Location: philadelphia
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:39 am Post subject: |
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I never have any problems w/ kword or abiword. Its actually one of the best formats. You may run into problems if the doc is over formated and contains unnecessary information or information that should not be in the final document. OO 1.9 worked well for me but I don't typically use it. |
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kmare l33t
Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 619 Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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vmware is a x86 emulator. It has nothing to do with openoffice. Try using openoffice2 (hard masked for now till it is released).. if you still have problems then give codeweaver a try (I don't think that wine will work with msoffice2003) by installing on top of it your copy of msoffice2003. _________________ Never argue with an idiot. They will only pull you down to their level, then beat you with experience. |
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SAngeli l33t
Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 904 Location: Italy
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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I am actually installing through wine Micro$oft Word Viewer 2003.
At moment it won't install. So I filed for a bug report.
If I am able to open, view, print the original word format it is quite sufficient for now.
I am also installing OOo2.....
Thanks,
Spiro |
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revertex l33t
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lghman Guru
Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Florida
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:07 am Post subject: |
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SAngeli wrote: | I am actually installing through wine Micro$oft Word Viewer 2003.
At moment it won't install. So I filed for a bug report.
If I am able to open, view, print the original word format it is quite sufficient for now.
I am also installing OOo2.....
Thanks,
Spiro |
I found a dramatic improvement when I switched to OOo2. It works great for me.
--sonik _________________ "What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of a child and the feeble mentality of the average adult" --Freud |
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bertaboy l33t
Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 604
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 4:14 am Post subject: |
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If you're a pupil or student, then you can legally download and install Star Office 8 from Sun's website. Granted, I had to do some extra work to get it to install, I havn't had any problems with SO7 or SO8 for the Word documents that I've had to open or save. Plus, SO8 supports Open Text Documents.
In order to get SO8 to install, I had to run the install script, but since it craps out (doesn't run the RPM's properly,) I had to go to the temp directory where it placed all of the RPM's, then rpm2tgz, then extract all of the RPM's. I ended up putting them in /opt/StarOffice8. The only problem I have is that it doesn't see any of the JRE's I have installed, nor does it see the one from the RPM, but as far as I can tell, it's fully functional. |
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SAngeli l33t
Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 904 Location: Italy
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 7:15 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
WineTools is for x86, right? What for those who have amd64? Can I still install WineTools or not?
Thank you,
Spiro |
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SAngeli l33t
Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 904 Location: Italy
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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I am running OOo 2.0.0_rc1 and I believe that the issue with Micro$oft Word documents formatting is almost or totaly solved. I will continue trying it and report back if I find something interesting to say.
So far so good.
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lsm n00b
Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 30
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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 5:49 pm Post subject: Anyone building OO 1.9+ from source? |
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My 1.1.4 built with pentium-m optimizations is very fast. I'm not contented to use an out-of-the-box binary pre-build.
Anyone successfully building OO 1.9+ from source? Why isn't there an ebuild? |
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