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and that was exactly the reason i was really surprised back when they adopted it in the first place. i don't know how it is in other nations, but in northern g
by y4mi 10y ago
and that was exactly the reason i was really surprised back when they adopted it in the first place.
i don't know how it is in other nations, but in northern germany pretty much everyone and their mother uses docx and xlsx files. even if they mail a file to someone, they never export it to a compatible document format. heck, even announcement letters are often left as docx - pdf seem too advanced for these people.
they probably could implement a convert server which opens a file on a windows server, converts it to a open format and serves the converted files back. but i wouldn't want to explain something like that to each employee, and i doubt the additional overhead would be worth the savings.
- cmdrfred 10y agoOne data point here. I never have an issue opening documents created in Word via LibreOffice Writer and then sending them back. I often do this while looking for jobs.
- boznz 10y agoI never have problems opening office documents except when they contain complex macros it either hangs opening or the formats a bit of a mess. If they are producing their documents in Open office I am very surprised they are having compatibility issues a large city like this would generally dictate the formats/terms to its suppliers and contractors.
- y4mi 10y agothe formatting is often off. its sometimes not clear right away, but if you look at the same file with each program, there are almost some differences. side-bars with contact information are, in my experience especially prone to errors and even prefill macros for names and similar often fail.
- dogma1138 10y agodocx and xlsx are ODF formats, conversion isn't necessary the problem is that LibreOffice OOXML and even ODF support is kinda meh, since the standard can be extended at will with simple schema updates it seems that the OSS community just can't catch up.