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Re: LibreOffice 4.1 New Features and Fixes

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Post by slacka »

ZeroMinx wrote: post #64
_pmf_ wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Improved MS Office Interoperability The problem is that this is a moving target (and event more in motion due to Microsoft's need to port this to some mobile platform, so no matter how much is invested in this issue, they will never get close to acceptable.

Yes, it is a moving target, but you can still get it to a very solid good level. In the past it's always been a few years between updates, and they have version details in the files, so you can say "Supports Word 2007 files" and not worry about Word 2016. I've written a bunch of Perl code (that I should open source.. maybe some day. anyone here'd find that useful?) for creating and editing docx files. It's not that h…

Agreed MS 97-2003 .doc is NOT a moving target. Back in 2008 when we were considering moving from MSO 2003 to OO or SoftMaker Office, SoftMaker had near perfect MSO import filters. 5 years later, and only 3 of the 14 .doc import bugs that I filed with OO (now on AOO tracker) have been fixed.

It's too bad the Oracle didn't take OO under their wings. With their resources they could have turned it into a true competitor to MSO. As it stands now, volunteers enjoy adding new features not bug fixing or scouring the 200 page OpenXML spec. sheet.

Re: LibreOffice 4.1 New Features and Fixes

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Post by slacka »

chris_wot wrote: post #80
slacka wrote: post #52

I would be happy if LibreOffice didn't add a single feature for the next year and did the following: * Improved MS Office Interoperability * Fixed bugs * Reduced memory usage/improved performance In fact, those are the primary reasons my company abandoned our plans to migrate from MSO to LO. I have filed several bug reports with both the AO/LO teams on issues such with incorrectly importing NetSuite generated Excel d…

Could you post the bug reports?

Here are a few of the bugs prevented us from migrating to OO. Note that the bug tracker DB has migrated from OOs servers to Apache.

https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121429 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=15379 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=95039 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119268 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121430 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=69633

Note the last one was fixed in AOO 4.0. Yay :) After 5 years, but better late than never! Unfortunately they only fixed the .doc import filter and it still exists in the .docx import filter. Asked them if I should post a new report.

Re: LibreOffice 4.1 New Features and Fixes

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Post by slacka »

stephen_g wrote: post #42
mililani wrote: post #25

I would forgo all of these new features if LibreOffice would create more compatible MS Office docs. As it stands, I can no longer use LibreOffice in my current work environment. Everyone complains my MS converted docs do not open correctly, AND VICE VERSA, on their MS Office apps.

MS Office support has been coming a long way over the last few releases - some massive improvements in this release and 4.1. You can see come examples of what's been fixed in this version here - http://vmiklos.hu/blog/lo-41-ooxml-improvements.html (and there's a link there to what was fixed in the last version). If you are having issues with it on work documents, you could really help out in having them fixed by tryi…

I've filed almost 40 MSO interop bugs with LO and 20 with AO over the past as 5 years. Far as I can tell only about 3 or 4 of them have been fixed.

This is a personal issue with me, because I lost some face with the owner. I had pushed for OO instead of MSO 2007/2010, but after a partial migration, it was clear OO was not up to the task.

Re: LibreOffice 4.1 New Features and Fixes

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Post by interpol_p »

PhearTheCeal wrote: post #6
interpol_p wrote: post #3

Maybe I'm being overly fussy. But I think they should polish their UI. For example https://www.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/EN-Project_images... — the "Properties" button and "Line Type" drop down are completely misaligned. These design issues add up and end up giving a poor impression of the software, regardless of its features.

Why don't you help do something about it then? At least a bug report? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/bug/

The main reason I referred to this image is because they are using it to advertise a new feature.

This was an image that was selected for marketing purposes. My point is that doing such a thing can make a bad impression. Show only the polished parts of the app.

Re: LibreOffice 4.1 New Features and Fixes

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Post by elchief »

ygra wrote: post #71
elchief wrote: post #35

I would love to see LibreOffice Calc work with XMLA OLAP servers, like Mondrian. This would be a major competitive advantage to Excel, which can only talk to SQL Server, or to others via very expensive plugins.

Excel can use any OLE DB driver or ODBC just fine to access other databases. It's not restricted to Access and SQL Server. From the dated look of the dialog windows involved I'd say it's been that way for a long time and isn't new in 2010.

I should have said "Excel can only talk OLAP to SQL Server". It can talk ODBC/OLEDB to many databases.

Re: LibreOffice 4.1 New Features and Fixes

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Post by chris_wot »

slacka wrote: post #82
chris_wot wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you post the bug reports?

Here are a few of the bugs prevented us from migrating to OO. Note that the bug tracker DB has migrated from OOs servers to Apache. https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121429 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=15379 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=95039 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119268 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121430 https://issues.apache.org…

Interesting... It appears that a few of these were fixed in LO!
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