OpenOffice.org 2.2 released

OpenOffice.org 2.2 released

Posted Apr 10, 2007 1:39 UTC (Tue) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599)
In reply to: OpenOffice.org 2.2 released by mikov
Parent article: OpenOffice.org 2.2 released

However things did not go perfectly - unfortunately OO.o is still not 100% compatible with MSOffice, so for practical purposes we needed to doublecheck documents with MFOffice before sending them out of the company. Which can quickly get extremely annoying.

I had similar issues a couple years back (1.0 days) while working on a two-person presentation--I'd be curious to see if things have improved since then. While the spreadsheet and word-processor components were reasonably interchangeable (albeit somewhat ugly from a rendering perspective, and you had to have all of the fonts available, not just "near equivalents" like X11's bitmapped Helvetica), the slide-presentation tool had serious issues in just about all respects. Even something as basic as auto-word-wrap failed (in both directions!), and mixing boxes and lines (and/or partially transparent overlays) with text was a near disaster. Even worse, PowerPoint embedded images often showed up in OOo as 100% black boxes, but not all of them did--others (maybe even 60-70% of them?) worked just fine.

All in all, it was an exercise in frustration even for me, and I was highly motivated to make it work. Fortunately, I haven't needed to do many presentations since then...

Greg

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