Bug#620137: openoffice.org-writer: Saving in docx format destroys the entire file content
Hi,
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:04:07AM +0100, Wolfgang Schulze-Zachau wrote:
> thanks for the answer. For the sake of possibly others participating in
> this thread I will keep my responses in English.
which threadf? you just replied to me only, not to the bgu. So far there's no
thread :P (Cc'ing the bug now))
> I appreciate that docx is a proprietary format, but I hope you can also
> appreciate that it is a very important one. We (as a company) have about
Unfortunately it is, yes...
> 150 people, of which around 100 are Linux users (mostly engineers) and the
> rest Windows users. As you may have guessed, the Windows users pretty much
> impose on everybody else that docx be used for all documents. Therefore I
> don't have much choice on that. If I were to follow your advice, I would
> alienate all my managers, and ultimately would not be able to function.
>
> We use debian on all our Linux machines, and as such would very much
> appreciate if Debian could uphold its reputation of being rock solid
> (that's why we chose it in the first place). As it stands at the moment I
> can't roll out squeeze, or if I do, I have to tell all the Linux users
> that they can't use docx format for anything else than reading a document.
That's what I would do, yes.
> I would have thought that if a widely used package like OO0 3.2.1 offers
> saving in docx format, that it is also supposed to work reasonably well. I
> am even offering you a file that shows a particular case where it doesn't
> work at all. If I were a developer on this team I would be grateful for
> being given the opportunity to improve my product. From what I hear from
improving the product? You mean Debian or OOo? OOo is dead. Debian will not
contain OOo in the future. And we already iimproved the product by
switching to LibreOffice for wheezy.
Besides that, you expect Debian rock-solid and stable and then also expect
that we either remove docx support and/or update the whole filter stuff to
OOo 3.3/LibreOffices one? Eventually causing more bad bugs?
Sounds like a contradiction to me.
> you, that is not going to happen. That's disappointing, to be honest.
Valid point, but I am not a OOo (nor LibO) se, and neeither do I (or am
even willing to do) upstream development there.
Grüße/Regards,
René
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